...idolatry. Because thou hast rejected the word of the Lord, he hath also rejected thee from being king." " To do justice and judgment, is more acceptable to the Lord than sacrifice." Prov. xxi. 3. Listen to the beautiful soliloquy and appeal of Micah, Micah vi. 6-8 — "Wherewith shall...

...shall die. . He that walketh uprightly walketh surely ; but he that perverteth his ways shall be known. To do justice and judgment is more acceptable to the Lord than sacrifice. In the way of righteousness is life ; and in the pathway thereof there is no death. When a man's ways...

...that useth his neighbour's service without wages, and giveth him not for his work. Jeremiah xxii. 13. To do justice and judgment is more acceptable to the Lord than sacrifice. Proverbs xxi. 3. There shall no evil happen to the just ; but the wicked shall be filled with mischief....

...all the sacrifices and formal services which they so hypocritically paid. For there it is written, " To do justice and judgment, is more acceptable to the Lord than sacrifice." 2 And again, " I desired mercy and not sacrifice; and the knowledge of God more than burnt offerings."...

...the magistrate's authority is from God, yet he is answerable to God for the due execution of it. " To do justice and judgment is more acceptable to the Lord than sacrifice." — Proverbs xxi. 3. " To what purpose is the multitude of your sacrifices unto Me ? saith the Lord...

...to all their hidden corruptions — forgive — accept — yea — rejoice in us as his people. 3. To do justice and judgment is more acceptable to the Lord than sacrifice. Did Solomon mean to undervalue sacrifice ? Never did man more highly honor it.4 Perhaps the splendor...

...desirest truth in the inward parts : and in the hidden part thou shalt make me to know wisdom. Pr. 21 : 3 To do justice and judgment is more acceptable to the LORD than sacrifice. Is. 56 : 1 Thus saith the LORD, Keep ye judgment, and do justice : for my salvation is near to come,...

...What this meaneth," " I will have mercy and not sacrifice ;" (Matt. ix. 13); and much less this, " To do justice and judgment is more acceptable to the Lord than sacrifice," (Prov. xxi. 3). But God told them, as Christ told the Jews of his day, that they must learn it; that...

...gees and requires. Every way of a man is right in his own eyes : But the LORD pondereth the hearts. To do justice and judgment is more acceptable to the LORD than sacrifice. An high look, and a proud heart, and the plowing* of the wicked is sin. — Prov. xxi. 2 — 4. * Or,...

...great and powerful Nations. I trust I am not warring on the faith of their Church, when I urge that " To do justice and judgment is more acceptable to the Lord than sacrifice " — that no man can be truly devout who is not strictly upright and manly — and that one living...