 | 1836 - 592 pages
...beasts ; and I delight not in the blood of bullocks, or of lambs, or of he goats." Hosea vi. 6. " For I desired mercy and not sacrifice ; and the knowledge of GOD, more than burnt-offerings." Micah vi. 7, 8. " Will the LORD be pleased wilh ihousandsof rams, or with ten thousands... | |
 | 1838 - 900 pages
...have slain them by the words of my mouth : 'and thy judgments are as the light that goeth forth. G For 9 But be shod with sandals ; and not put on two coats. 10 And he said un burnt offerings. 7 But they 6like men have transgressed the covenant : there have they dealt treach... | |
 | John Warner Barber - 1836 - 598 pages
...desire of the unhappy prisoner) from the following words of the prophet Hosea, chapter vi. verse 6. "For I desired mercy and not sacrifice; and the knowledge of God more than burnt offering." About three o'clock the prisoner, guarded by two companies of militia, attended by... | |
 | Eleanor C. Agnew - 1837 - 450 pages
...prophets. I have slain them by the words of my mouth, and thy judgments shall go forth as the light, for I desired mercy and not sacrifice, and the knowledge of God more than holocausts." The lesson read for the epistle, was from Exodus, relating to the institution of the passover, which prefigured... | |
 | Edward Stopford (bp. of Meath.) - 1837 - 282 pages
...not sacrifice, ye would not have condemned the guiltless." The quotation is from Hosea vi. 6 : " For I desired mercy and not sacrifice, and the knowledge of God more than burnt-offerings." According to scripture language, " mercy and not sacrifice," means mercy rather than... | |
 | Joseph Hall - 1837 - 630 pages
...information, as have been no less clear than the light itself, that goeth forth upon the world. VI. (i. For I 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... | |
 | Joseph Hall - 1837 - 624 pages
...information, as have been no less clear than the light itself, that goeth forth upon the world. VI. 6. For I desired mercy, and not sacrifice; and the knowledge of God, more than burnt offerings. VI. 5. Therefore have I hewed them by t/ie prophets; I have slain them by the words... | |
 | Thomas Jee - 1837 - 96 pages
...truth as Micah, and especially the Prophet Hosea, who saith, speaking in the name of the Lord, For I desired mercy, and not sacrifice ; and the knowledge of God more than burnt-offerings.^ This agrees also with what our Lord himself taught his disciples, when he said, Every... | |
 | Alexander McCaul - 1837 - 266 pages
...mind exalts ceremonies above moral duties. God declares that all outward observances are secondary. " I desired mercy and not sacrifice, and the knowledge of God more than burnt-offerings." (Hos. vi. 6.) "He hath showed thee, О man, what is good ; and what doth the Lord... | |
 | Georg Lorenz Bauer - 1838 - 186 pages
...But let judgment run down as waters, and righteousness as a mighty stream." — Amos v. 21-24. " For I desired mercy, and not sacrifice ; and the knowledge of God more than burnt offerings." — Hnsea vi. 6. " Wherewith shall I come before Jehovah, and bow myself before the... | |
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For I desired mercy, and not sacrifice; and the knowledge of God more than burnt offerings. 
