Upon Malachi 1:12-14, by James Renwick. Preface and Lecture 9.

But ye have profaned it, in that ye say, The table of the LORD is polluted; and the fruit thereof, even his meat, is contemptible. Ye said also, behold, what a weariness is it! and ye have snuffed at it, saith the LORD of hosts; and ye brought that which was torn, and the lame, and the sick; thus ye brought an offering: should I accept this of your hand? saith the LORD. But cursed be the deceiver, which 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 heathen.
~ Malachi 1:12-14

And in process of time it came to pass, that Cain brought of the fruit of the ground an offering unto the LORD. And Abel, he also brought of the firstlings of his flock and of the fat thereof. And the LORD had respect unto Abel and to his offering: But unto Cain and to his offering he had not respect. And Cain was very wroth, and his countenance fell. And the LORD said unto Cain, Why art thou wroth? and why is thy countenance fallen? If thou doest well, shalt thou not be accepted? and if thou doest not well, sin lieth at the door. And unto thee shall be his desire, and thou shalt rule over him.
~ Genesis 4:3-7

And if there be any blemish therein, as if it be lame, or blind, or have any ill blemish, thou shalt not sacrifice it unto the LORD thy God. When thou vowest a vow unto God, defer not to pay it; for he hath no pleasure in fools: pay that which thou hast vowed. Better is it that thou shouldest not vow, than that thou shouldest vow and not pay.
~ Deuteronomy 15:21, Ecclesiastes 5:4-5

Wherefore kick ye at my sacrifice and at mine offering, which I have commanded in my habitation; and honourest thy sons above me, to make yourselves fat with the chiefest of all the offerings of Israel my people?
~ 1 Samuel 2:29

But ye are departed out of the way; ye have caused many to stumble at the law; ye have corrupted the covenant of Levi, saith the LORD of hosts. Then they brought the golden vessels that were taken out of the temple of the house of God which was at Jerusalem; and the king, and his princes, his wives, and his concubines, drank in them. They drank wine, and praised the gods of gold, and of silver, of brass, of iron, of wood, and of stone.
~ Malachi 2:8, Daniel 5:3-4

And being in Bethany in the house of Simon the leper, as he sat at meat, there came a woman having an alabaster box of ointment of spikenard very precious; and she brake the box, and poured it on his head. And there were some that had indignation within themselves, and said, Why was this waste of the ointment made? For it might have been sold for more than three hundred pence, and have been given to the poor. And they murmured against her.
~ Mar 14:3-5

In the foregoing part of this chapter, the Lord is showing by this prophet, how this people, especially the priests, were exceeding guilty of the contemning of his name, and he pronounceth a sad sentence against them, viz. that he will transfer his church, and remove it from them; and tells them, that he will get a people among the Gentiles, that his name shall be great among; and he gives the reason of the justness of this sentence, and the reason is, because they have profaned his name. Now, they might reply, how had they profaned it? And he proves it.

(1.). By their expression: And then,

(2.) By their deeds. They concluded that the temple of the Lord was polluted, by what it had been, the expressions that he proves it by, and so they needed not to stand what to offer; so they thought that ought would suffice, to be an offering offered thereon, so here there deeds that they proved by. But we would come and observe some things anent (concerning) the reasons of the cause of the justness of his controversy.

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