| Religion - 1812 - 954 pages
...humiliation and repentance. And not forgetting, that the more active means of averting wrath are " to loose the bands of wickedness, to undo the heavy burdens, to let the oppressed go free, and to deal bread to the hungry ;" be and his family display their benevolence by seeking out proper objects,... | |
| William Smith - 1803 - 584 pages
...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 are cast out to thy house ;... | |
| Richard Graves - Bible - 1807 - 520 pages
...superior beauty and energy ? * " Is. not this " the * Isaiah, Ifiiu 6, &c, " the fast that I have chosen ; to loose the " bands of wickedness, to undo the heavy " burdens, 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... | |
| Samuel Clapham - 1815 - 708 pages
...the British Prisoners in France. Ptge Isaiah Iviii. 6, 7. Is not this the fast that I have chosen ? to loose the bands of -wickedness, to undo the heavy burdens, to let the oppressed go freey and that ye break every yoke. Is it not to deal thy bread to the hungry, and that thou bring... | |
| Lindley Murray - Readers - 1816 - 236 pages
...thy God, if thy worship be for strife and debate. Behold the sacrifice that I have chosen: is it not to undo the heavy burdens; to let the oppressed go free; and to break every yoke ? to deal thy bread to the hungry; and to bring the poor, that are, cast out, to thy house ?" And Aram... | |
| Isaac Penington - Society of Friends - 1818 - 326 pages
...known ; which' is not to afflict the soul, er to hang down the head like a bulrush for a day ; but to loose the bands of wickedness, to undo- the heavy burdens, to let the oppressed go free, to b*eak every yoke, to deal one's bread to the hungry ("to visit the fatherless and widows in their... | |
| Albert Picket - American literature - 1820 - 314 pages
...thy God, if thy worship be for strife and debate. Behold the sacrifice that I have chosen ; is it not to undo the heavy burdens ; to let the oppressed go free, and to break every yoke ; to deal thy fcread to the hungry, and to bring the poor, that are cast out, to thy house ?' And Aram... | |
| Henry Belfrage - Lord's Supper - 1821 - 412 pages
...tenderness, and led to the Saviour, who comforts them that are cast down. In the spirit of our Lord, labour " to loose the bands of wickedness, to undo the heavy...let the oppressed go free, and to break every yoke." The exertions which have been made for the abolition of slavery, and the efforts of the humane, to... | |
| Arminianism - 1826 - 918 pages
...God," yet continue to " smite with the fist of wickedness;" and, on the very day appropriated to bis service, " to find their pleasure, and exact all their...yoke." Nor does he less require, at the hands of all hi* Ministers, and till his people, that they shoOld combine their strenuous and unceasing efforts... | |
| Great Britain. Parliament House of Commons - Antislavery movements - 1823 - 476 pages
...a Master ia heaven? " And are not both to be reminded, that it is their duty in the sight of God " to loose the bands of wickedness, to undo the heavy...let the oppressed go free, and to break every yoke?" And are not the whole j. '•<•••. lation of the United Kingdom to be warned, that, if they forbear... | |
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