Subject: often contemplated
Content: often contemplated The first is not often contemplated in public fasting, because all men have not the same constitution or health of body; therefore it is rather more applicable to private fasting. The second end is common to both, such preparation for prayer being tory burch flats necessary to the whole Church, as well as to every one of the faithful in particular. The tame may be said of the third. For it will sometimes happen that God will afflict a whole nation with war, pestilence, or some other calamity: under such a common scourge, it behoves all the tory burch outlet people tory burch sale to make a confession of their guilt. When the hand of the Lord chastises an individual, he ought to make a similar confession, either alone or with his family. It is true that this acknowledgment lies principally in the disposition of the heart; but when the heart is affected as it ought to be, it can scarcely avoid breaking out into the external expression, and most especially when it promotes the general edification, in order that all, by a public confession of their sin, may unitedly acknowledge the justice of God, and may mutually animate each other by the influence of example.XVI. Wherefore fasting, as it is a sign of humiliation, is of more frequent use in public, than among individuals in MBT Shoes private; though it is common to both, MBT as we have already observed. With MBT Shoes Clearance regard to the discipline, therefore, of which we tory burch shoes are now treating, whenever supplications are to be presented to God on any important occasion, it would be right to enjoin the union of fasting with prayer. Thus when the faithful at Antioch "laid their hands on Paul and Barnabas; the better to recommend their very important ministry to God, they " fasted" as well as " prayed." (V) So also when Paul and Barnabas afterwards "ordained elders in every Church," they used to " pray with fasting."
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