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title: 'A Discourse on the Nature and Reasonableness of Fasting'
type: pdf
hasMedia: true
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authors:
- 'Samuel Stanhope Smith'
date: 1795-01-01
collection: 'Archives'
subcollection: '18th century'
topics:
- 'Worship (General)'
- 'Devotional (General)'
scriptures:
- 'Joel 2'
- 'Isaiah 58'
- 'Matthew 9'
url: https://confessional.org/archives/18th-century/smith-1795-a-discourse-on-the-nature-and-reasonableness-of-fasting
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# A Discourse on the Nature and Reasonableness of Fasting

1795 Princeton sermon on the nature and reasonableness of fasting: its penitential purpose, proper practice, and the present causes urging public and private fasts.

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