 | 1807 - 570 pages
...takest no knowledge ? Behold, in the day of your fast ye tind pleasure, and exact all your labours. 4 Behold, ye fast for strife and debate, and to smite...with the fist of wickedness : ye shall not fast as yc do this day, to make your voice to be heard on high. 5 Is it such a fast that I have chosen '. a... | |
 | Joseph Hall - 1808 - 568 pages
...exact, on that day, which should be solemnly holy, the hardest labours and most servile works. LVIII. 4 Behold, ye fast for strife and debate, and to smite...wickedness : ye shall not fast as ye do this day, to makt your voice to be heard on high. holiness : such a fast as this is, is not that, which shall win... | |
 | Joseph Hall (bp. of Norwich.) - 1808 - 550 pages
...cleanse the outside of the cup, while I am within full of extortion and excess? Matt, xxiii. 25. Shall I fast for strife and debate, and to smite with the fist of wickedness? Isa. Iviii. 4. Shall I, under pretence of long prayers, devour widows' houses ? Matt, xxiii. 14. Shall... | |
 | William Wake - 1810 - 418 pages
...deprive us of our spiritual life. 3. Wherefore he again speaketh to them, concerning the things : " ye shall not fast as ye do this day, to make your...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 like a bulrush, and to spread sackcloth... | |
 | Church of Scotland - 1810 - 636 pages
...no knowledge ? Behold, in the day of your fast ye find pleasure, and exact all your labours. Ver. 4. Behold, ye fast for strife and debate, and to smite with the fist of wickedness ; ye shall npt fast as ye do this day, to make your voice to be heard on high. Ver. 5. Is it such a fast that... | |
 | Thomas Scott - 1810 - 594 pages
...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 wicked' " ness."* The substantial and permanent effects of repentance, and faith in GOD'S mercy, must... | |
 | 1813 - 580 pages
...no knowledge > Behold, in the day of your fast ye find pleasure, and exact all your labours. Ver. 4. Behold, ye fast for strife and debate, and to smite...this day, to make your voice to be heard on high. Ver. 5. Is it such a fast that I have chosen ? a day for a man to afflict his soul ? is it to bow down... | |
 | Lord Henry Home Kames - 1813 - 536 pages
...because it cannot be acceptable to a benevolent Deity. Listen to a great prophet on that subject : " Behold, ye fast for strife and " debate, and to smite...ye shall not fast as ye do this day, to make your * A sect of Christians, styled Flagettanles, held, that flagellation is of equal virtue with baptism... | |
 | John Stanford - 1814 - 450 pages
...reprehension. In the days of Isaiah, when that people held their fast, he thus reproved them by his prophet : Behold, ye fast for strife and debate, and to smite...heard on high. Is it such a fast that I have chosen ? a day for a man to afflict his soul f Is it to bow down his head as a bulrush; and to spread sackcloth... | |
 | 1831 - 492 pages
...say they, and thou seest not? wherefore have we afflicted our soul, and thou takest no knowledge ? Ye shall not fast as ye do this day, to make your voice to be heard on high." — Mission to the Jews. A. HOUSE WELL FURNISHED. THOMAS COLLINGWOOD was a young man of industrious... | |
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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 call this a fast, and an acceptable day to the Lord? 
