Protestant Episcopal Laymans Handbook Containing An Explanattion of the Innov
Protestant Episcopal Laymans Handbook Containing An Explanattion of the Innov
D H Dixon
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B. Was compiled the Epistles and Gospels for Lent were continued from the old offices, and it appears strange that our Reformers did not notice that it had been impossible to find an Epistle for that day deemed so important, the first day of Lent, called the Head of the Fast, and that in the old Service Books they had been compelled to fall back to one of the lesser Prophets of the O. T. , and to this day the words " Turn ye even to me . . . With fasting .... Sanctify a fast, " are read to us a...s if it was Biblical authority for a stated fast of forty days, even should the season be a prosperous one, and more fitted for thanksgiving than for mourning. On the contrary, however, Joel foresaw an impend- ing calamity of a water famine and plague of locusts and exhorted the Jews to keep a fasty^r that particu- lar occasion only I Was not our Lord's forty days fast part of His temptation, for it was only after he was so weak with fasting that Satan made proposals to him } No stress whatever is laid upon it in the N.
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