...spirit, operating in a life agreeably to the commands of God, is the most acceptable sacrifice to him. Wherewith shall I come before the Lord, and bow myself before the high God? Shall I come befort him with burnt offerings, with calves of a year old? Will the Lord be pleased with...

...know the righteousness of the Lor9," L e. the righteousness which God will accept. Balak demands, " Wherewith shall I come before the Lord, and bow myself before the high God ? Shall I come before him with burnt-offerings, with calves of a year old ? Will the Lord be pleased...

...upon our hearts. Still, these manifestations of Himself fail to answer the painful interrogation — "Wherewith shall I come before the Lord, and bow myself before the High God?" Again, natural theology brings out the existence of a God ; but it cannot tell us how he will deal...

...of course, is sufficiently recognized in that passage of the prophet Micah, in which he says — " Wherewith shall I come before the Lord, and bow myself before the high God?"$ From the New Testament as from the Old, very few authorities shall suffice. The instances of kneeling...

...to ward offthe blows of justice by covering herself with superstitious practices. She did not say " wherewith shall I come before the Lord, and bow myself before the high God? shall I come before him with burnt offerings, with calves of a year old ? Will the Lord be pleased...

...blood there is no remission of sin." Without the word of God, who can answer this important question, " Wherewith shall I come before the Lord, and bow myself before the high God ?" " He hath shown thee, O man, in his word, what is good." Is it not then evident, that the word of...

...The Prophet Micah £, in a passage partly quoted above, inveighs bitterly against such sacrifices : " Wherewith shall I come before the Lord, and " bow myself before the high God ; shall I come " before him with burnt-offerings, with calves of " a year old ? will the Lord be pleased...

...colloquy of Balak with the prophet of Pethor ? " Remember now what Balak, king of Moab consulted" — " Wherewith shall I come before the Lord ; and bow myself before the High God ? Shall I come before him with burnt offerings — with calves of a year old ? Will the Lord be pleased...

...nature, that they could not be content to keep at a distance from God. Fearing his wrath, they asked, 'Wherewith shall I come before the Lord, and bow myself before the high God ? Shall I come before him with burnt-offerings, with calves of a year old ? Will the Lord be pleased...

...blood must of necessity be much more precious than brutal. In answer to that important question, " Wherewith shall I come before the Lord, and bow myself before the High God?" Calves and rams are mentioned first; and if these are found insufficient, the man's first-born is proposed...