Fasting: An Inquiry Into Its Antiquity, Uses, and Obligations ; to which is Added, a Sermon for the Ember Weeks |
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Acts Ahab alms ancient Apostles Appendix appointed Bede Biog Bishop Bishop Hooper blessed body book xxi bread charity Christ Christians Chrysostom Church of England commanded Common Prayer confession daily decays of piety disciples fast discipline Edward VI Ember days Ember Weeks example exer exhort fast and pray fasting and prayer feast forty days fourth and sixth Godliness Harduin heart heaven Homilies Irenæus Isai John x Lent Fast Lord Luke lviii Matt means meat minister mortification mourn necessity neglect observed occasion ordained ourselves outward particular Church Pharisees practice of fasting prayer and fasting Psal quoted by Bingham religious abstinence repentance Righteousness sackcloth Saviour says Scriptures seasons self-denial Sermon shalt sins sobriety solemn soul spirit subdue the flesh Taylor's Holy Living teach Tertullian thine things thou tion token of humiliation unto Wednesday and Friday whole Church words Wordsworth's Eccl καὶ
Popular passages
Page 10 - Let neither man nor beast, herd nor flock, taste anything: let them not feed, nor drink water...
Page 40 - And when they had ordained them elders in every church, and had prayed with fasting, they commended them to the Lord, on whom they believed.
Page 8 - And all the people took notice of it, and it pleased them : as whatsoever the king did pleased all the people.
Page 22 - But I keep under my body, and bring it into subjection: lest that by any means, when I have preached to others, I myself should be a castaway.
Page 18 - Behold, this was the iniquity of thy sister Sodom, pride, fulness of bread, and abundance of idleness was in her and in her daughters, neither did she strengthen the hand of the poor and needy.
Page 28 - ... manservant, and thy maid-servant, and the Levite, the stranger, and the fatherless, and the widow, that are within thy gates. Seven days shalt thou keep a solemn feast unto the Lord thy God in the place which the Lord shall choose: because the Lord thy God shall bless thee in all thine increase, and in all the works of thine hands, therefore thou shalt surely rejoice.
Page 34 - Borne: in which place he continued his customary rules of mortification and self-denial; was much in fasting, frequent in meditation and prayers, enjoying those blessed returns, which only men of strict lives feel and know, and of which men of loose and godless lives cannot be made sensible; for spiritual things are spiritually discerned.
Page 15 - And it came to pass, when Ahab heard those words, that he rent his clothes, and put sackcloth upon his flesh, and fasted, and lay in sackcloth, and went softly.
Page 9 - Therefore, when thou doest thine alms, do not sound a trumpet before thee, as the hypocrites do, in the synagogues, and in the streets, that they may have glory of men. Verily I say unto you, they have their reward.
Page 9 - Whosoever therefore shall break one of the least of these commandments, and shall teach men so, he shall be called the least in the kingdom of heaven : and whosoever shall do and teach them, the same shall be called great in the kingdom of heaven.