| Edward Stopford (bp. of Meath.) - 1837 - 282 pages
...thou 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...let the oppressed go free, and to 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... | |
| William Evans - Quakers - 1837 - 508 pages
...to the Holy Scriptures, the fast which the Lord required, was to abstain from every species of evil, to loose the bands of wickedness, to undo the heavy...let the oppressed go free, and to break every yoke : to deal their bread to the hungry, to bring the poor that are cast out, into their houses, and to... | |
| Robert Philip - Meditations - 1837 - 348 pages
...prayers, but stood out immoveably on the original point : " Is not this the fast, that I have chosen ? to loose the bands of wickedness, to undo the heavy...let the oppressed go free, and to break every yoke ?" verse 7. In connexion with thus doing good to others, God said, " Then shall thy light break forth... | |
| George Washington Blagden - Congregational churches - 1837 - 52 pages
...chosen, they fasted for strife and debate, and smote with the fist of wickedness. He was to command them to loose the bands of wickedness, to undo the heavy burdens, to let the oppressed go free, to break every yoke : — to deal their bread to the hungry, — to bring the poor, that were cast... | |
| 1841 - 538 pages
...the prophet Isaiah, the God of heaven and earth has taught us that the fast which He has chosen is to undo the heavy burdens, to let the oppressed go free and to deal bread to the hungry ; then, surely, ministers of religion are only legitimately fulfilling the... | |
| 1838 - 516 pages
...craft: and in her were found, slaves and sonls of men. Yes, we ardently desire to loose. the bands ot wickedness, to undo the heavy burdens, to let the oppressed go free, ;to break every yoke •. not the yoke from the negro only— not the yoke from the Papist only—... | |
| Alexander Campbell, Charles Louis Loos - Bethany (W. Va.) - 1839 - 616 pages
...besause of the state of their hearts, he says to them, "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 free, and that ye break every yoke? Is it not to deal thy bread to the hungry, and that thou bring the poor,... | |
| Richard Graves - 1840 - 534 pages
...prophet Isaiah, with such superior beauty and energy : " 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 free, and that " ye break every yoke? Is it not to deal thy bread to the hungry, " and that thou bring the poor... | |
| George Willson - Elocution - 1840 - 298 pages
...of 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 trembled... | |
| New England Yearly Meeting of Friends. Representative Meeting - Slave trade - 1841 - 150 pages
...Lawgiver, to love our neighbour as ourselves, and to do to him as we would be done by; " to loose the bauds of wickedness, to undo the heavy burdens, to let the oppressed go free, and to break every yoke?" We fervently desire that it may please the Lord Almighty, in the riches of His love and mercy, to bring... | |
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