Excerpt from National Preacher, or Original Monthly Sermons From Living Ministers of the United States: Vols; IX. And X., For the Two Years Commencing June 1834, and Ending May 1836 There are few truths of greater practical importance than the one here announced; and none perhaps which men are more inclined to for get. Of multitudes it may be said, God is not in all their thoughts; and of others, that though they think of him, it is only as their Creator and Benefactor, not as their. Holy and eternal king. They choose to forget him in this relation, that they may avoid the conviction of their own re sponsibility. But forgetfulness of God, or of the relations he sustains to us, can never annihilate those relations. He is a king upon his throne, swaying a scepter of universal and uncontroled authority. He is a great king, whose attributes it behoves us to consider, whose will it deeply concerns us to know and obey. This truth the prophet proclaims to the Israelites in the words before us, and proclaims it for the purpose of showing them the guilt of their hypocritical offerings. They had brought the torn, and the lame, and the sick, for a sacrifice, instead of animals without blemish, as the law required. But what said the answer of God? Cursed be the man who hath in his flock a male, and voweth and sacrificeth unto the Lord a corrupt thing: for I am a great king, saith the Lord of hosts; and my name is dreadful among the hea then. They had forgotten the majesty oi Him with whom they had to do, and treated the great Lord of the universe with a Species of disrespect which they would not have dared to offer to an earthly governor - 4. Mere mortal like themselves. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.