Counterfeits of the Kingdom

Because of outward, external, unessential things, brother would destroy brother at Rome. (Romans 14) All because they did not fully understand, that God beholdeth the heart and not the face. God is God. He cannot be pleased with rivers of oil, ten thousands of rams, nice, pious faces, while the heart of man is far from thoughts of the Almighty. David lifts up his voice and weeps: Thou desirest not sacri­fice, else would I give it. Ah, if God only would desire sacrifice, that is, money,...