The Friends' Library: Comprising Journals, Doctrinal Treatises ..., volume 10
The Friends' Library: Comprising Journals, Doctrinal Treatises ..., volume 10
William Evans, Thomas Evans
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The prophets witnessed to the gospel, 1st, by their predictive declarations concern- ing the coming, sufferings, and offices of the Messiah. 2nd, By instructing the people in the necessity of internal, essential, effectual religion, in preference to the written law, even during the time that stood in force ; as that weightier part and superior duty, which ever necessarily remains throughout all gene- rations. Samuel saith, " To obey is better than sac- rifice."* Hosea, ** I desired mercy, and n...ot sacrifice," or not in comparison with it, " and the knowledge of God more than burnt ofler- ings."** David acknowledges to the Lord, "Thou desirest not sacrifice, else would I give it: thou delightest not in burnt-offering. The sacrifices oi God are a broken spirit: a broken and a contrite heart, O God, thou wilt not despise."* In his pathetic address to the Almighty, verse 6, he saith, ** Thou desirest truth in the inward parts ;" and verse 10, he prays, " Create in me a clean heart, and re- new a right spirit within me." Micah que- ries, " Will the Lord be pleased with thou- sands of rams, or with ten thousands of rivers of oil?
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