...MEANS. 1. Pray. 2. Read. ;. Meditate, i Tim. iv. 4. Hear. • • . л HOSEA H OSEA vi. 5. deßred Mercy, and not Sacrifice ; and the Knowledge of GOD more than Burnt-offerings. гтг^НЕ Knowledge of GOD îs better*than j|_ any Sacrifice we can offer to him : Or, The Principal...

...Lufts, we (hovfld Jive foberly-, righteoufty, and :godly in this prefent World. e The Lord hath defired Mercy-, and not Sacrifice; and the Knowledge of God, more than Burnt-Offerings. f What God hath deanfed, that cal not. thou common. t Meat coiwmendeth us not to Go'f : For, neither...

...fecms to be of the fame Importance with that the Lord expreffes by the Prophet Hufea, Chap. 6. I defire Mercy and not Sacrifice, and the Knowledge of God more than burnt-Offerings. This is fully explain'd, and to the Life,by the Lord Jefuf in Sr. Matthew, Chap. 9. Who being at Table...

...offered Swine's Blood i He that burnetb Incenfe, as if he bleffedan Idol. Ifaiah Ixvi. 3. / dsfired Mercy, and not Sacrifice ; and the Knowledge of God more than Burnt-Offerings. Hofea vi. 6. I fhall conclude my Quotations from the Prophets with aPaflagein Micah, (Chap. vi. ver....

...— Bring no more 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...

...scarlet, they 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...

...I 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 against me....

...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....

...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....

...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...