 | Richard Wright - 1805 - 420 pages
...shall be white as snow ; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool.' Hos. vi. 6. ' For I desired mercy, and not sacrifice ; and the knowledge of God more than burnt offerings.' Mic. vi. 6, 7, 8, ' Wherewith shall I come before the LORD, and bow myself before... | |
 | Timothy Kenrick - 1805 - 396 pages
...vain oblations — Wash ye, make you clean, put away the evil of your doings, &c." Hosea vi, 6 ; " For I desired mercy, and not sacrifice, and the knowledge of God more than burnt offerings." Amos v, 22 — 27; " Though ye offer me burnt offerings I will not accept them. But... | |
 | 1807 - 570 pages
...have slain them by the words of my mouth : and thy judgments are as the light that goeth forth. G For I desired mercy, and not sacrifice ? and the knowledge of God, more than burnt-offerings. 7 But they like men have transgressed the covenant : there have they dealt treacherously... | |
 | Jonathan Edwards - 1808 - 512 pages
...Father, is this, To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, Sec. Hos. vi. 6. For I have desired mercy, and not sacrifice ; and the knowledge of God, more than burnt offerings, Mat. v. 7. Blessed are the merciful ; for they shall obtain mercy. 2 Cor. viii. 8.... | |
 | Jonathan Edwards - 1808 - 514 pages
...Father, is this, To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, Sec. Hos. vi. G. For I have desired mercy, and not sacrifice ; and the knowledge of God, more than burnt offerings, Mat. v. 7. Blessed are the merciful ? for they shall obtain mercy. 2 Cor. viii. 8.... | |
 | Joseph Hall (bp. of Norwich.) - 1808 - 582 pages
...information, as have been no less clear than the light itself, that goeth forth upon the world. VI. 6 For 1 desired mercy, and not sacrifice ; and the knowledge of God, more than burnt offerings. For it was true inward goodness and mercy, that I required of them, and not the outward... | |
 | First Unitarian Society. Philadelphia - 1810 - 506 pages
...shall be white as snow . though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool.' Hos. vi. 6. 'For I desired mercy, and not sacrifice ; and the knowledge of God more than burnt offerings.' Mic. vi. 6, 7, S. ' Wherewith shall I come before the LORD, and bow myself before... | |
 | John Murray - 1813 - 438 pages
...your sacrifices to me, saith the LORD ? I delight not in the blood of bullocks." Hosea vi. 6, " For I desired mercy, and not sacrifice, and the knowledge of God more than burnt offerings." Matthew xii. 7, " For if ye had known what this meaneth, I will have mercy and not... | |
 | Joseph McKean - 1814 - 366 pages
...I do unto thee ? for your goodness is as a morning cloud, and as the early dew it goeth away. 6 For I desired mercy, and not sacrifice; and the knowledge of God more than, burnt offerings. 9 Strangers have devoured his strength, and he knoweth it not ; yea, gray hairs are... | |
 | Edward Everett - 1814 - 522 pages
...and your appointed feasts my soul hateth. They are a trouble unto me, J am weary to hear them."* "For I desired mercy and not sacrifice, and the knowledge of God more than burnt offerings."! Mr. English retreats from passages like these, with the remark, that " the other... | |
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For I desired mercy, and not sacrifice; and the knowledge of God more than burnt offerings. 
