| Samuel Charles Wilks - 1829 - 426 pages
...accepts of no gift that does not spontaneously flow from the cordial obedience of faith and love. " Halh the Lord as great delight in burnt-offerings and sacrifices, as in obeying the voice of the Lord F" Behold, to obey is better than sacrifice, and to hearken than the fat of rams." Not indeed that... | |
| John Witherspoon - 1830 - 274 pages
...uncommanded offering of sacrifice unto God, for which he met with this just and severe reprimand : "Hath the Lord as great delight in burnt-offerings...the Lord ? Behold, to obey is better than sacrifice, and to hearken than the fat of rams." We see every day innumerable instances of the same kind : when... | |
| Zachary Macaulay, Samuel Charles Wilks, John William Cunningham - 1830 - 558 pages
...end ! Would that outward ceremonies, were never substituted for true piety and obedience of heart ! " Hath the Lord as great delight in burnt-offerings...the Lord ? Behold, to obey is better than sacrifice, and to hearken than the fat of rams." In reference to the conduct of the persons spoken of in the text,... | |
| William Henry Rowlatt - 1830 - 454 pages
...Testament, to have been as impossible, then, as it can be now. For what was the language of Samuel to Saul? Hath the Lord as great delight in burntofferings and...the Lord ? Behold, to obey is better than sacrifice, and to hearken than the fat of rams. And this impression seems to acquire greater force, as we advance... | |
| Richard Baxter - 1830 - 616 pages
...seeing thou hatest instruction, and castest my words behind thee ; Psal. 1. 8, 9, &c. " Hath the Lord delight in burnt-offerings, and sacrifices, as in...the Lord ? Behold, to obey is better than sacrifice, and to hearken, than the fat of rams ;" 1 Sam. xv. 22, 23. " Know, that the Lord hath chosen the man... | |
| Richard Baxter - 1830 - 630 pages
...seeing thou hatest instruction, and easiest my words behind thee ; Psal. 1. 8, 9, &c. " Hath the Lord delight in burnt-offerings, and sacrifices, as in...the Lord ? Behold, to obey is better than sacrifice, and to hearken, than the fat of rams ;" 1 Sam. xv. 22, 23. " Know, that the Lord hath chosen the man... | |
| 1830 - 1070 pages
...and sacrifices, as in obeyng the voice of the LORD! Be iiold, to obey is better than sacri fice, and to hearken than the fat of rams. 23 For rebellion is as the sin of witchcraft, and stubbornness is as iniquity and idolatry. Because ihou hast rejected the word of the LORD, ho hath... | |
| Jonathan Edwards - 1830 - 630 pages
...preferred before them. 1 Sam. xv. 22. " And Samuel said, Hath the Lord as great delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices as in obeying the voice of the Lord ? Behold, to obey is better than sacrifice, and to hearken, than the fat of rams." Christians, by offering obedience to God in their lives and... | |
| Francis Geach Crossman - 1830 - 366 pages
...sacrifice unto the Lord thy God. And Samuel said, hath the Lord as great delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices, as in obeying the voice of the Lord ? Behold, to obey is better than sacrifice, and to hearken, than the fat of rams; and Saul said, I have sinned, now therefore I pray thee pardon... | |
| Sarah Trimmer - 1830 - 304 pages
...the Lord thy God in Gilgal. 22 And Samuel said, Hath the Lord as great de» light in burnt offerings and sacrifices as in obeying the voice of the Lord ? Behold, to obey is better than sacrifice, and to hearken than the fat of rams. 24 And Saul said unto Samuel, I have sinned; for I have transgressed... | |
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