...feasts my soul hateth : they are a trouble unto me, I am weary to bear them." Isaiah i. 11 — 14. "For I desired mercy and not sacrifice ; and the knowledge of God more than burnt offerings." Hosea vi. 6.1 Our blessed Lord and his apostles also found it necessary to caution...

...fear of him, with faith in the promised Seed, which lay veiled under those coverings (Hos. vi. 6); 'I desired mercy, and not sacrifice; and the knowledge of God! more than burn! offerings ;' and therefore he seems sometimes weary of his own institutions, and calls them not...

...country ? your burnt-offerings are not acceptable, nor your sacrifices sweet unto me," Jer. vi, 20. ''! desired mercy, and not sacrifice ; and the knowledge of God more than burntofferings," Hosea vi, 0-8, 13 ; ix, 4. " I hate, I despise your feast days, and I will not dwell...

...meanetb, I will have mercy, and not sacrifice." The passage in the prophecy here quoted runs thus: " For I desired mercy and not sacrifice; and the knowledge of God more than burntofferings." The meaning is plainly this, that God is more pleased with " mercy," ie deeds of kindness,...

...the blessing of the sacrifice returns back on him that offers it, as we read in Hosea vi. 6. ' For I desired mercy, and not sacrifice ; and the knowledge of God more than burnt-offerings.' The sacrifices which the Centurion offered with his lips and hands, from a devout...

...1 have slain them by the words of my mouth, And my judgments have gone forth like the light. 6 For I desired mercy, and not sacrifice, And the knowledge of God more than burnt-offerings. 7 But they, after the manner of men, have transgressed the covenant ; Even therein...

...Dan. iv. 27. Break off thy sins by righteousness, and thine iniquities by shewing mercy. Hos. vi. 6. I desired mercy and not sacrifice, and the knowledge of God more than burnt offerings. Matt. ix. 13. — xii. 7. xii. 6. Keep mercy and judgment Mic. vi. 8. What doth the...

...instructs and reproves them. The passage to which he here refers is taken from Hos. vi. 6 — " For I desired mercy and not sacrifice ; and the knowledge of God more than burntofferings." Here the latter clause explains the former, which may be thus paraphrased — " I...

...meaning of this Scripture. The latter part of it is a quotation from Hosea (vi. 6), where it runs thus: " I desired mercy and not sacrifice, and the knowledge of God more than burnt offerings." The people of Israel in Hosea's time were extremely wicked ; yet they continued to...

...pharisees, he brought up before them an tinnoticed, if not unknown, saying by an ancient prophet : " For I desired mercy, and not sacrifice ; and the knowledge of God more than burnt-offerings" (Hos. vi. G). Mercy and the knowledge of God are the fundamental principles of all...