| Bernard Barton - 1826 - 280 pages
...OBEDIENCE BETTER THAN SACRIFICE. "And Samuel said, Hath the Lord as great delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices, as in obeying the voice of the Lord...sacrifice, and to hearken than the fat of rams."— 1 Samuel, Xv. 22. THINK not, Christian ! thou canst choose How obedience should be shown, God will evermore... | |
| Martin Luther - Lutheran Church - 1826 - 600 pages
...rather, that idolatry which Samuel, chap. xv. 22, sets forth unto Saul in a powerful way ; thus, " 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. For rebellion is as the sin of witchcraft, and stubbornness... | |
| Martin Luther - 1826 - 1184 pages
...rather, that idolatry which Samuel, chap. xv. 22, sets forth unto Saul in a powerful way ; thus, " 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. For rebellion is as the sin of witchcraft, and stubbornness... | |
| Thomas Wetherald - Sermons, American - 1826 - 360 pages
..."but this 1 commanded you, saying, Obey my voice; Hath (he 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." This declaration was made when pride, folly, and oppression had... | |
| Jacques Saurin - Sermons, French - 1827 - 522 pages
...a precept, bad violated an express prohibition. ' Hath the Lord as great delight in burntoffcrings and sacrifices, as in obeying the voice of the Lord...this is a fifth snare, a fifth insinuation ; and a Jin I, class of those ' sins which so easily beset us;') —is it public worship which constitutes... | |
| Moses Maimonides, James Townley - Commandments (Judaism) - 1827 - 464 pages
...first and independent object of the law, nor has the Divine Being any need of them. Thus Samuel, " Hath the LORD as great delight in burnt-offerings...to hearken, than the fat of rams." (1 Sam. xv. 22.) Isaiah also inquires, " To what purpose is the multitude of your sacrifices unto me, saith the LORD... | |
| John Ryland - Baptism - 1827 - 130 pages
...pass, that every soul which will not hear that prophet, SHALL BE DESTROYED from among the people." " Hath the Lord as great delight in burnt-offerings...Lord ? Behold, to obey, is better than sacrifice, and to hearken than the fatof rams." No man can be saved without such a slate of mind as will lead... | |
| Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church (1802-1822) - 1827 - 522 pages
...should have been utterly destroyed, to sacrifice unto the Lord, thy God, in Gil¡¡al. And Samuel said, 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. For rebellion is as the sin of witcheraft, and stubbornness... | |
| William Dealtry - 1827 - 700 pages
...instead of reasoning on the subject, appeals to him with a question, which must have sunk into his soul, 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.* Thus was the whole web of his sophistry swept away in a moment,... | |
| Jacques Saurin - Sermons, English - 1827 - 666 pages
...the spoil, and didst evil in the sight of the Lord. 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. For rebellion i - as the sin of witchcraft, and stubbornness... | |
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