http://christianprayerandfasting.com/2007/01/01/joel-215/ Spurring Others Toward Closer Communion With Our Creator Tue, 06 Jan 2009 08:37:17 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.4 http://christianprayerandfasting.com/2007/01/01/joel-215/#comment-173 Sun, 14 Jan 2007 08:28:55 +0000 http://christianprayerandfasting.com/2007/01/01/joel-215/#comment-173 [...] A public fast is when, by the authority of the magistrate (Jonah 3:7; 2 Chronicles 20:3; Ezra 8:21), either the whole church within his dominion, or some special congregation, whom it concerns, assemble themselves together, to perform the fore-mentioned duties of humiliation; either for the removing of some public calamity threatened or already inflicted upon them, as the sword, invasion, famine, pestilence, or other fearful sickness (1 Samuel 7:5-6; Joel 2:15; 2 Chronicles 20; Jonah 3:5; Esther 4:16); or else for the obtaining of some public blessing, for the good of the church,—as to crave the assistance of his Holy Spirit, in the election and ordination of fit and able pastors, etc., or for the trial of truth, and execution of justice, in matters of difficulty and great importance, etc. (Exodus 19; Acts 1:13-14). [...] […] A public fast is when, by the authority of the magistrate (Jonah 3:7; 2 Chronicles 20:3; Ezra 8:21), either the whole church within his dominion, or some special congregation, whom it concerns, assemble themselves together, to perform the fore-mentioned duties of humiliation; either for the removing of some public calamity threatened or already inflicted upon them, as the sword, invasion, famine, pestilence, or other fearful sickness (1 Samuel 7:5-6; Joel 2:15; 2 Chronicles 20; Jonah 3:5; Esther 4:16); or else for the obtaining of some public blessing, for the good of the church,—as to crave the assistance of his Holy Spirit, in the election and ordination of fit and able pastors, etc., or for the trial of truth, and execution of justice, in matters of difficulty and great importance, etc. (Exodus 19; Acts 1:13-14). […]

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