| 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...oppressed go free, and that ye break every yoke?" So this fast that the Lord requires, is not to lay yokes and oppress and lay heavy burdens, and to... | |
| 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 and wickednefs of years and... | |
| Jonathan Payne - 1803 - 32 pages
...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, to undo the heavy...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 are cast out¿ to thy... | |
| George Fox - 1803 - 436 pages
...that I have chosen, saith the Lord ; to loose the hands of wickedness, to undo the heavy burthens, 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, to oppress, and lay heavy burthens, and... | |
| Sacred hours - 1804 - 500 pages
...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 undo the 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 that are... | |
| Job Orton, Robert Gentleman - Bible - 1805 - 474 pages
...day to the; 6 LORD ? cunxf thou believe it viill be to ? [Is] not this the fast that I have chosen ? to loose the bands of wickedness, to undo the heavy...the oppressed go free, and that ye break every yoke ? that is, cancel those ebligations which have been extorted in an unjust "manner, and loosen those... | |
| Thomas Clarkson - Society of Friends - 1806 - 406 pages
...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...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 are cast out, to thy... | |
| Thomas Clarkson - Society of Friends - 1806 - 480 pages
...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... | |
| 1807 - 570 pages
...call this a fast, and an acceptable day to the LORD ? tj Is not this the fast that I have chosen ? to loose the bands of wickedness, to undo the heavy...the oppressed go free, and that ye break every yoke ? 7 Is it not to deal thy bread to the hungry, and that thou bring the poor that are cast out to thy... | |
| James Stephen - Antislavery movements - 1807 - 76 pages
...call this a fast, and an acceptable day to the Lord ? ", 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 you break. " every yoke?" Not less clear to the same effect, are the exhortations of the prophet... | |
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