The day of atonement
No more would abstinence, or the observing a continual fast, have excused any of the children of Israel from fasting the tenth day of the seventh month, the great annual day of atonement. There was no exception for these in that solemn decree: Whatever soul it shall be that shall not be afflicted (shall not fast) in that day, he shall be cut off from among his people (Leviticus 23:29).
1771 text
No more would abstinence, or the observing a continual fast, have excused any of the children of Israel, from fasting the tenth day of the seventh month, the great annual day of atonement. There was no exception for these in that solemn decree, Whatsoever soul it shall be, that shall not be afflicted (shall not fast) in that day, he shall be cut off from among his people.
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Catalogue & scope
Sermon 27 in the 1771 Works. Matthew 6:16-18.
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