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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1852 edition. Excerpt: ...fastest, anoint thy head and wash thy face, that thou appear not unto men to fast, but unto thy Father which is in secret; and thy Father, which seeth in secret, shall reward thee openly.' You may see in Isaiah the Iviiith, what the true fast is which the Lord requires; where it is said to the prophet, ' Cry aloud, and spare not, lift up thy voice like a trumpet, and show my people their transgression, and the house of Jacob their sins; yet they seek me daily, and delight to know my ways as a nation that did righteousness, and forsook not the ordinance of their God; they ask of me the ordinances of justice; they take delight in approaching to God, Wherefore have we fasted, say they, and thou seest not? wherefore have we afflicted our soul, and thou takest no. knowledge? Behold, in the day of your fast ye find pleasure, and exact all your labours. Behold, ye fast for strife and debate, and to smite with the fist of wickedness, ye shall not fast, as ye do this day, to make your voice to be heard on high. Is it 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 him? Wilt thou eall this a fast, and an acceptable day to the Lord? Is not this the fast that I have chosen, saitli the Lord; to loose the bands of wickedness, to undo the heavy burthens, aud to let the oppressed go free, and that ye break every yoke?' So this fast that the Lord requires, is not to lay yokes, to, oppress, and lay heavy burthens, and to make fast the bands of wickedness; but to loose and to break such things. And further, concerning the true fast the Lord requires, ' Is it not to deal thy bread to the hungry, and that thou bring the poor, that are cast out, to thy house? When...

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