 Is not this the fast that I have chosen? to loose the bands of wickedness, to undo the heavy burdens, and to let the oppressed go free, and that ye break every yoke? Is it not to deal thy bread to the hungry, and that thou bring the poor that are cast...  A System of Revealed Religion ... - Page 481819Full view - About this book
 | John Platts - 1827 - 572 pages
...do evil ; relieve the oppressed, judge the fatherless, plead for the widow, do. Iviii. 6, 7 : Is not this the fast that I have chosen? to loose the bands...and that thou hide not thyself from thine own flesh? ZEC. vii. 10: Oppress not the widow, nor the fatherless, the stranger, nor the poor. MAt. xxv. 36 :... | |
 | John Platts - 1827 - 676 pages
...defiled and unbelieving is nothing pure ; but even their mind and conscience is denied. f ISA. Iviii. 7 : Is it not to deal thy bread to the hungry, and that...? When thou seest the naked, that thou cover him? DAN. iv. 27 : Break off thy sins by righteousness, and thine iniquities by showing mercy to the poor.... | |
 | William Wake - Catechisms, English - 1827 - 454 pages
...oppressed go free ? and that ye break every yoke. Is it not to deal thy bread to the hungry, and tliat thou bring the poor, that are cast out, to thy house...and that thou hide not thyself from thine own flesh. Then shall thy light break forth as the morning, and thine health shall spring forth speedily; and... | |
 | Thomas Wright (of Borthwick, Scotland.) - Lord's Supper - 1828 - 464 pages
...such a fast that I have chosen ? a day for a man to afflict his soul ? is it to bow down his head as a bulrush, and to spread sackcloth and ashes under...and that thou hide not thyself from thine own flesh? Then shall thy light break forth as the morning, and thine health shall spring forth speedily ; and... | |
 | Maria Jane Jewsbury - Christian life - 1828 - 262 pages
...call this a fast and an acceptable day to the Lord ? Is not this the fast that I have chosen, to looge the bands of wickedness, to undo the heavy burdens,...and that thou hide not thyself from thine own flesh ? And if thou draw out thy soul to the hungry, and satisfy the afflicted soul; then shall thy light... | |
 | William Jay - Christian life - 1828 - 408 pages
...religious fasting as well as feasting. " Is not this the fast that I have chosen? to loose the bonds of wickedness, to undo the heavy burdens, and to let...and that thou hide not thyself from thine own flesh ?" Well therefore does the Apostle say, " Let all your works be done with charity." O ! what a lovely... | |
 | John Rogers Pitman - 1828 - 620 pages
...this the fast, that I have chosen ? To loose the bands of wickedness, to undo the heavy burthens, to let the oppressed go free, and that ye break every...and that thou hide not thyself from thine own flesh ? ' These are some of the spiritual benefits, for I omit to men.j^i the corporeal ones, though very... | |
 | William Dodd - 1828 - 522 pages
...to seven, and also to eight, &c. — Eccles. xi. 1, 2, Is not this the fast that I have chosen? &c. Is it not to deal thy bread to the hungry, and that...and that thou hide not thyself from thine own flesh? Then shall thy light break forth as the morning, &c. And if thou draw out thy soul to the hungry, and... | |
 | Michael Thomas Sadler - Ireland - 1828 - 496 pages
...fatherless; plead for the widow !" (Isa. 1. 13, 17.) " Is not this the fast that I have chosen ? — to deal thy bread to the hungry ! and that thou bring...and that thou hide not thyself from thine own flesh !" (Isa. Iviii. 6, 7.) And lastly, and above all, the Deity has connected this right of the poor with... | |
 | sir John Bayley (1st bart), Henry Clissold - 1828 - 196 pages
...those who rely upon outward acts, upon compliance with external forms. See ante p. 40, Mkuh iii. 11. 91 the bands of wickedness, to undo the heavy burdens',...Is it not to deal thy bread to the hungry, and that them bring the poor that are cast out to thy house ? when thou seest the naked, that thou cover him,... | |
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