 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?  Register - Page 31by First Society of Adherents to Divine Revelation at Orbiston - 1826Full view - About this book
 | 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Isaac Penington - Society of Friends - 1818 - 326 pages
...fast is 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 affliction,"... | |
 | 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 burdens, to let the oppressed go free, and to break every yoke." The exertions which have been made for the abolition of slavery, and the... | |
 | Arminianism - 1826 - 918 pages
...labours ;" reminding them, that the service which God requires at their hands, in the first place, is, " to loose the bands of wickedness, to undo the heavy burdens, to let the oppressed go free, and to break every yoke." Nor does he less require, at the hands of all hi* Ministers, and till his... | |
 | William Wilberforce - Abolitionists - 1823 - 642 pages
...a Master in 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 burdens, to let the oppressed go free, and to break every yoke?" And are not the whole population of the United Kingdom to be warned, 1bat,... | |
 | Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons - Antislavery movements - 1823 - 586 pages
...a Master in 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 burdens, to let the oppressed go free, and to break every yoke?" And are not the whole population of the United Kingdom to be warned, that,... | |
 | 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 burdens, to let the oppressed go free, and to break every yoke?" And are not the whole j. '•<•••. lation of the United Kingdom to... | |
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