chapter ii

. 11, 13.)

13. This God continually declared to those formal worshippers. That their outward religion was but vain. _To what purpose is the multitude of your sacrifices_, saith the Lord? _I am full of the burnt-offerings of rams, and I delight not in the blood of bullocks, or of lambs or of he-goats. Bring no more vain oblations: Incense is an abomination unto me; the new moons and sabbaths, the calling of assemblies, I cannot away with; it is iniquity, even the solemn meeting――――When you spread forth your hands, I will hide mine eyes from you; yea, when ye make many prayers, I will not hear_, (Isaiah i. 11, 13, 15.) _He that killeth an ox is as if he slew a man; he that sacrificeth a lamb, as if he cut off a dog’s neck_, (