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and proclaimed a Fast throughout all Judah, 2 Chron. xx. 3. So did Esther when she undertook the great danger to go in to Ahasuerus against the Law, to intercede for the deliverance of the whole Nation of the Jews, she would not venture upon so great a peril unless all the Jews would fast three whole days before the Lord, and neither eat nor drink, Est. iv. 16. What should I say more out of many examples? Ezra suspecting what great opposition he should find to re-edifie the Temple of the Lord, he proclaimed a Fast, that all the People might afflict themselves before God, Ezra viii. 21. And St. Basil, a great Practiser of this doctrine, |
and proclaimed a Fast throughout all Judah, 2 Chronicles xx. 3. So did Esther when she undertook the great danger to go in to Ahasuerus against the Law, to intercede for the deliverance of the Whole nation of the jews, she would not venture upon so great a peril unless all the jews would fast three Whole days before the Lord, and neither eat nor drink, Est. iv. 16. What should I say more out of many Examples? Ezra suspecting what great opposition he should find to re-edify the Temple of the Lord, he proclaimed a Fast, that all the People might afflict themselves before God, Ezra viii. 21. And Saint Basil, a great Practiser of this Doctrine, |
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