 Every way of a man is right in his own eyes: but the Lord pondereth the hearts. 3 To do justice and judgment is more acceptable to the Lord than sacrifice.  Miscellaneous works - Page 48by Joseph Hall - 1808Full view - About this book
 | Nathaniel Lardner - 1827 - 638 pages
...in the midst of the paths of judgment." And in the twenty-first chapter is that excellent remark: " To do justice and judgment is more acceptable to the Lord, than sacrifice," ch. xxi. 3. 4.) Beside all these things, wisdom includes prudence, or a becoming regard and discreet... | |
 | John Platts - 1827 - 676 pages
...LORD ? Behold, to obey is better than sacrifice, and to hearken than the fat of rams. PRO. xxi. 3 : To do justice and judgment is more acceptable to the LORD than sacrifice. Hos. vi. 6 : I desired mercy, and not sacrifice ; and the knowledge of God more than burnt offerings.... | |
 | Edward William Grinfield - Salvation - 1827 - 514 pages
...mankind. " The eyes of the Lord are in every place beholding the evil and the good." Prov. xv. 15. " To do justice and judgment is more acceptable to the Lord, than sacrifice," xxi. 3. " The rich and the poor meet together, the Lord is the maker of them all," xxii. 2. The book... | |
 | William Dodd - 1828 - 522 pages
...xvi. 1 1 . Micah vi.10,11. 245 are alike abomination to the Lord. — Prov. xx. 10. Amos v iii. 5. To do justice and judgment, is more acceptable to the Lord than sacrifice,&c. It is joy to the just to do judgment. — Prov. xxi. 3. 15. Micah vi. 6—8. Remove not... | |
 | Noah Worcester - Atonement - 1829 - 244 pages
...mercy and not sacrifice, and the knowledge of . God more than burnt offerings." Hosea vi. 6. — " To do justice and judgment, is more acceptable to the Lord than sacrifice." Prov. xxi. 3. In answer to interrogations respecting the sacrifices with which God would be pleased,... | |
 | Charles Buck - Theology - 1829 - 614 pages
...sect. 59.] So tnat the whole may be resolved into the apophthegm of the wise man. [Prov. xxi. 3 :] " To do justice and judgment is more acceptable to the Lord than sacrifice." See Kennicott, above referred to ; Edivards's History of Redemption, p. 76, note i Outram de Sacrifiais;... | |
 | John Bird Sumner (abp. of Canterbury.) - 1831 - 722 pages
...all the sacrifices and formal services which they so hypocritically paid. For there it Lwritten, " To do justice and judgment, is more acceptable to the Lord than sacrifice." (Prov. xxi. 3.) And again, " I desired mercy and not sacrifice ; and the knowledge of God more than... | |
 | George Fox - Evangelists - 1831 - 512 pages
...Prov. xv. 8. Here you may see, you that are wicked, your prayers and sacrifices are not accepted. ' And to do justice and judgment is more acceptable to the Lord than outward sacrifices.' Prov. xxi. 3. So here you may see, it is not offering sacrifices only with a company... | |
 | William Burkitt - 1832 - 780 pages
...exercises of instituted worship whatsoever. / will have mercy, says God, rather than sacrifice ; and to do justice and judgment is more acceptable to the Lord than burnt-offering. Secondly, That no duty, gift, or onering to God, is accepted where the duty of clarity... | |
 | Priscilla Wakefield - Children - 1833 - 242 pages
...vexed fatherless and widows.'" Ezek. xxii. 6, 7. To thy neighbor ; hear what God's servants taught: "To do justice and judgment, is more acceptable to the Lord than sacrifice." Prov. xxi. 3. "Divers weights and measures are alike abomination unto the Lord." Levit. xix. 36. Deut.... | |
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