A treatise on religious fasting1823 |
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Sivu 17
... desires to subdue , no fleshly lusts to mortify , no sluggishness of spirit to overcome . Why , then , did he observe a fast of " forty days and forty nights ? " ( Matt . iv . 2. ) We really are at a loss to answer , unless it was to ...
... desires to subdue , no fleshly lusts to mortify , no sluggishness of spirit to overcome . Why , then , did he observe a fast of " forty days and forty nights ? " ( Matt . iv . 2. ) We really are at a loss to answer , unless it was to ...
Sivu 43
... desire to be delivered from this danger of hell and damnation , that all desire of meat and drink is laid apart , and loathsomeness of all worldly things and pleasures cometh in place ; so that nothing then liketh them more than to weep ...
... desire to be delivered from this danger of hell and damnation , that all desire of meat and drink is laid apart , and loathsomeness of all worldly things and pleasures cometh in place ; so that nothing then liketh them more than to weep ...
Sivu 48
... desire after any object naturally absorbs the attention and engrosses all the powers of the mind ; so that other things are entirely unnoticed , or but slightly regarded . This has often been carried so far , as to the neglect of eating ...
... desire after any object naturally absorbs the attention and engrosses all the powers of the mind ; so that other things are entirely unnoticed , or but slightly regarded . This has often been carried so far , as to the neglect of eating ...
Sivu 49
... desire after God , it will be found to render such a desire still more ardent . It is undoubtedly the will of the Lord , that fasting should be made subservient to the purposes of charity . By abstaining from food , an avaricious person ...
... desire after God , it will be found to render such a desire still more ardent . It is undoubtedly the will of the Lord , that fasting should be made subservient to the purposes of charity . By abstaining from food , an avaricious person ...
Sivu 51
... desires , and also to give ardency to those affections of the heart which were set on things above . Such important ends warrant the institution of the means ; and although human reason is not the standard by which the divine pro ...
... desires , and also to give ardency to those affections of the heart which were set on things above . Such important ends warrant the institution of the means ; and although human reason is not the standard by which the divine pro ...
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Sivu 57 - And Jesus said unto them, Because of your unbelief: for verily I say unto you, If ye have faith as a grain of mustard seed, ye shall say unto this mountain, Remove hence to yonder place; and it shall remove; and nothing shall be impossible unto you.
Sivu 49 - ... if thou draw out thy soul to the hungry, and satisfy the afflicted soul ; then shall thy light rise in obscurity, and thy darkness be as the noon-day; and the Lord shall guide thee continually, and satisfy thy soul in drought, and make fat thy bones : and thou shalt be like a watered garden, and like a spring of water, whose waters fail not.
Sivu 58 - Is it not to deal thy bread to the hungry, and that thou bring the poor that are cast out to thy house? when thou seest the naked, that thou cover him ; 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 thy righteousness shall go before thee ; the glory of the Lord shall be thy rereward. Then shalt thou call, and the Lord shall answer ; thou shalt cry, and he shall say, Here I am.
Sivu 90 - Moses besought the LORD his GOD, and said, LORD, why doth thy wrath wax hot against thy people, •which thou hast brought forth out of the land of Egypt with great power and with a mighty hand ? Wherefore should the Egyptians speak and say.
Sivu 19 - Giving no offence in any thing, that the ministry be not blamed; but in all things approving ourselves as the ministers of God, in much patience, in afflictions, in necessities, in distresses, in stripes, in imprisonments, in tumults, in labours, in watchings, in fastings...
Sivu 16 - And Jesus said unto them, Can the children of the bridechamber mourn, as long as the bridegroom is with them? but the days will come, when the bridegroom shall be taken from them, and then shall they fast.
Sivu 30 - Then Jesus called his disciples unto him, and said, I have compassion on the multitude, because they continue with me now three days, and have nothing to eat : and I will not send them away fasting, lest they faint in the way.
Sivu 70 - Who hath measured the waters in the hollow of his hand, and meted out heaven with the span, and comprehended the dust of the earth in a measure, and weighed the mountains in scales, and the hills in a balance?
Sivu 18 - But thou, when thou fastest, anoint thine 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.
Sivu 35 - 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...