Bible Dictionary: Fasting: Accompanied by Confession of Sin

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1 Samuel 7:6
And they gathered together to Mizpeh, and drew water, and poured it out before the LORD, and fasted on that day, and said there, We have sinned against the LORD. And Samuel judged the children of Israel in Mizpeh.
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Nehemiah 9:1,2
Now in the twenty and fourth day of this month the children of Israel were assembled with fasting, and with sackcloths, and earth on them.
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Repentance and victory
... out of water 'before the Lord,' probably as emblematic of the pouring out of soul
in penitence; for it was accompanied by fasting and confession of sin. ...
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Of the vision that Appeared to a Certain Man of God Before the ...
... before the presence of the Lord in confession, you may ... as has been said; and continued
fasting all the ... day to a distance from the monastery, accompanied by one ...
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The Second Helvetic Confession, AD 1566.
... intimately acquainted with Zwingli, accompanied him to ... of the importance of this
Confession, I give ... True Christian fasting consists in temperance, abstinence ...
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Penitence, as Explained in the Sophistical Jargon of the Schoolmen ...
... to retake ourselves to mourning, fasting, and other ... Then when confession is prescribed
as necessary ... us then understand punishment accompanied with indignation. ...
/.../the institutes of the christian religion/chapter 4 penitence as explained.htm

Analysis of the Westminster Confession.
... proper to the elect which was accompanied with an ... D to Mitchell's tract on the
Westminster Confession, pp. ... wrote also The Holy Exercise of Fasting (1604); A ...
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Derivative Doctrines. Grace and the Means of Grace; the Christian ...
... It is accompanied (de Trin. ... Of compulsory confession, or even of this ordinance as
an ordinary ... He strongly recommends the discipline of fasting, in which, as ...
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Aron, Brother of Moses, 486, 487.
... Fasting, one of the wings of prayer, [374]140, [375]423 ... See Confession, Faith, Grace. ...
Knowledge, distinguished from wisdom, [660]629; accompanied by charity and ...
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The Doctrines of Salvation A. Repentance. B. Faith. C. ...
... movement, even though it be not accompanied with a ... of varying moods: complaint,
supplication, confession, despondency, praise. ... With fasting (Acts 13:2, 3; 14:23 ...
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Abraham, his Trial in Egypt; his Humility
... Confession, looseth sin, [327]299; a sacrifice, [328]309. ... Fasting, commonly within
men's power, [618]50; needed ... of excess, [1077]357; was accompanied by other ...
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Letter xxxix. To Paula.
... [809] Therefore, since Judah means confession, and since ... the gate of paradise, death
is accompanied, not with ... and you give yourself daily to fasting, to reading ...
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