 | 1611 - 360 pages
...bulrush, And to spread sackcloth and ashes under him ? Wilt thou call this a fast, And an acceptable day to the Lord? Is not this the fast that I have chosen?...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... | |
 | George Fox - 1694 - 504 pages
...fast, and an acceptable day to the Lord ? Is not this the fast that 1 have chosen, saith the Lord ; to loose the bands of wickedness, to undo the heavy burdens, and to let the oppressed go free, and that ye break every yoke?" So this fast that the Lord requires, is not to lay yokes and oppress and... | |
 | 1777 - 174 pages
...afoes under him?-— Is not THIS the faft that I have chofen ? — To loofe the bands of 'wickednefs ? —To UNDO the heavy burdens, and to let the OPPRESSED GO FREE, AND THAT YE BREAK EVERY YOKE t* To Conclude the whole. . . However, • The id?a of expunging the fins... | |
 | Jonathan Payne - 1803 - 32 pages
...under him? wilt thou call this a fast, and an acceptable day to the Lord ? is not this the fast 19 that I have ch'osen? to loose the bands of wickedness,...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... | |
 | William Smith - 1803 - 584 pages
...sackcloth and ashes under him ! Wilt thou call this a Fast — an acceptable day' unto the Lord? Is not the Fast that I have chosen — " To loose the bands of wickedness, to undo the heavy burdens, to let the oppressed go free, break every yoke, deal thy bread to the hungry, to bring the Poor that... | |
 | Sacred hours - 1804 - 500 pages
...under him ? wilt thou call this a fast, and an acceptable day to the Lord? Is not this the fast that 1 have chosen ? to loose the bands of wickedness, to...heavy burdens, and to let the oppressed go free, and that ye brake every yoke ? Is it not to deal thy bread to the iiungrv, and that thou bring the poor... | |
 | Job Orton, Robert Gentleman - 1805 - 476 pages
...call this a fast, and an acceptable day to the 6 LORD? canst thou believe it 4oill be so ? [Is] not this the fast • that I have chosen ? to loose the...heavy burdens, and to let the oppressed go free, and that ye break every yoke ? that is, cancel those ebligalions 4tihich have been extorted in an unjust... | |
 | Thomas Clarkson - 1806 - 406 pages
...that the real fast is of a different nature from that required. "" Is not this the fast, says Isaiah, that I have chosen, to loose the bands of wickedness,...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... | |
 | Thomas Clarkson - 1806 - 480 pages
...the real fast is of a different nature from that required. " Is not this the fast," says Isaiah*, " that I have chosen, to loose the bands of wickedness, to undo the heavy burdens, and to let the op* Isaiah Iviii. 6, 7. pressed pressed go free, and that ye break every yoke ? Is it not to deal thy... | |
 | James Stephen - 1807 - 76 pages
...bul" rush, and to spread sackcloth under him ? wilt thou " call this a fast, and an acceptable day to the Lord ? ", Is not this the fast that I have...heavy burdens, " and to let the oppressed go free, and that you break. " every yoke?" Not less clear to the same effect, are the exhortations of the prophet... | |
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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? 
