| Robert Hall - 1832 - 542 páginas
...which, he begs it to be remembered that the New Testament teaches, that God is no respecter of persons ; that in every nation, he that feareth God and worketh righteousness, is accepted of him ; that we may be certain there will not be wanting in the innumerable assembly around the throne,... | |
| Charles Simeon - 1832 - 664 páginas
...man," they account as nothing. But so did 418 ECCLESIASTES, XII. 13, 14. [847. not Peter, who says, that " in every nation, he that feareth God and worketh righteousness, is accepted of him*." Nor was Paul of their opinion ; for he has declared (and in the very epistle where he most... | |
| Robert Hall - 1832 - 542 páginas
...which, he begs it to be remembered that the New Testament teaches, that God is no respecter of persons ; that in every nation, he that feareth God and worketh righteousness, is accepted of him ; that we may be certain there will not be wanting in the innumerable assembly around the throne,... | |
| 1832 - 678 páginas
...although in a less clear degree, from the source which St. Peter points to where he says — " In every nation he that feareth GOD and worketh righteousness, is accepted with him." Under the law given to the Jews, it was the living according to the conditions of the covenant ; in... | |
| Manual - 1832 - 480 páginas
...Cornelius and his friends : "Of a truth I perceive that God is no respecter of persons ; but in every nation, he that feareth God, and worketh righteousness, is accepted with him." He then preached the life and death and resurrection of Christ ; and that he was ordained to be the... | |
| John Henry Hobart - 1832 - 256 páginas
...mercy of the Saviour is co-extensive with the ruin into which sin has plunged mankind. And " in every nation, he that feareth God and worketh righteousness, is accepted with him." But where the Gospel is proclaimed, communion with the church by the participation of its ordinances... | |
| American Doctrinal Tract Society - 1832 - 322 páginas
...the sentiment of Peter : " Of a truth I perceive that God is no respecter of persons, but in every nation, he that feareth God and worketh righteousness, is accepted with him." Obj. 6. The doctrine of election represents God as unjust. Am. It will not be pretended, that he is... | |
| John Kershaw Craig - 1833 - 328 páginas
...all that accompanies salvation, to be all of grace, yet that here, in this chapter, it is declared that " in every nation, he that feareth God, and worketh righteousness, is accepted with him ;"—that while Revelation declares, though not perhaps in so many words, yet in its general bearing,... | |
| Lant Carpenter - 1833 - 152 páginas
...reasons?') which I pause to answer, as I am led to believe from reason, what is set forth in scripture, that ' in every nation he that feareth God and worketh righteousness is accepted with him,' in whatever form of worship he may have been taught to glorify God. Nevertheless, I presume to think,... | |
| William Johnson Fox - 1833 - 348 páginas
...worth a divine interposition to give the Apostle Peter a clear and heart-felt perception of the truth that ' in every nation he that feareth God and worketh righteousness is accepted of him ; ' it must certainly be worth some human zeal, sacrifice, and effort, to bring home that truth... | |
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