Christian Prayer and Fasting

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The holy Scripture appoints no time under the New Testament to fast; but leaves it to Christians’ own free choice (Romans 14:3 & 1 Corinthians 7:5), to fast as occasions shall be offered to them (Mattew 9:15) as when a man becomes an humble, an earnest suitor to God for the pardon of some gross sin committed; or for the prevention of some sin to which a man feels himself by Satan solicited; or to obtain some special blessing which he wants; or to avert some judgment which a man fears, or is already fallen upon himself or others; or, lastly, to subdue his flesh to his spirit, that he may more cheerfully pour forth his soul to God by prayer. Upon these occasions a man may fast a day or longer, as his occasion requires, and the constitution of his body and other needful affairs will permit (Leviticus 23:32, Joshua 7:6 & Esther 4:16).

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