Bible Encyclopedia: Fasting: Spirit of, Explained

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Of True Fasting and Its Reward: Also of Purity of Body.
... this detailed account of primitive fasting (2 Corinthians 6:5 ... explanation itself
needs to be explained, let him ... emphatically, that "the created Spirit of Christ ...
/.../pastor/the pastor books first second third/similitude fifth of true fasting.htm

Penitence, as Explained in the Sophistical Jargon of the Schoolmen ...
... whatsoever, if it is our duty to retake ourselves to mourning, fasting, and other ...
By such forms of expression the Holy Spirit has explained his meaning not ...
/.../the institutes of the christian religion/chapter 4 penitence as explained.htm

Acts xii. 18, 19
... enacting as a law that there shall be fasting, for indeed ... he was not sent by this
(man), but by the Spirit. ... only the last clause seems to be explained by the ...
/.../chrysostom/homilies on acts and romans/homily xxvii acts xii 18.htm

On Regeneration
... in the Spirit," or, which was before explained, in the ... any Holy Ghost; if we are
strangers to fasting, watching and ... that he who hath not the Spirit of Christ ...
/.../whitefield/selected sermons of george whitefield/on regeneration.htm

Sacred Times --The Lord's Day.
... the second century can only be explained by the ... a day of repentance, with prayer
and fasting, in commemoration ... the outpouring of the Holy Spirit, originated in ...
/.../history of the christian church volume i/section 57 sacred timesthe lords.htm

Homilies on Galatians and Ephesians.
... Fasting, a means of intercession, [268]101. ... Types, in the Old Testament, explained,
[609]166. Unity of the Spirit, binds all together, [610]97; its perfectness ...
/.../homilies on galatians and ephesians.htm

"And we Beheld his Glory" --A Father's Faith.
... One of the men explained what they were disputing about. ... He charged the evil spirit
to come out of the boy ... can come forth by nothing but by prayer and fasting.". ...
/.../lathbury/childs story of the bible/chapter xxvii and we beheld.htm

The Kingdom of God: Its Values
... Fasting was alien to the spirit which ruled in ... He repeatedly and emphatically explained
the coming of the Kingdom in terms taken from biological growth, and ...
/.../rauschenbusch/the social principles of jesus/chapter iv the kingdom of.htm

Esther
... The spirit of the book of Esther is anything ... ix.20-28, the other enjoining fasting
and lamentations ... significant that the customs have sometimes to be explained. ...
//christianbookshelf.org/mcfadyen/introduction to the old testament/esther.htm

The Scriptures a Safeguard.
... The language of the Bible should be explained according to ... We need to be guided by
the Spirit of truth ... humble ourselves before the Lord, with fasting and prayer ...
/.../37 the scriptures a safeguard.htm

Torrey's Topical Textbook

Isaiah 58:6,7
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?
Torrey's Topical Textbook