...this privilege : for he does not say that men of all nations are accepted of God ; but that in every nation ' he that feareth God and worketh righteousness' is accepted of him. Now, one great end of the Christian religion being to instruct us in the fear of God, and in works...

...righteousness prescribed and ordained by God himself. And therefore, when St. Peter says, ' that in every nation he that feareth God, and worketh righteousness, is accepted of him,' he is not to be understood as limiting the mercies of God to certain persons of the best character,...

...referring to the texts, which declare, that " to him that hath by improvement shall be given, and, in every nation he that feareth God and worketh righteousness, is accepted of him ;" and by observing, that believing in the being of God, and that he is the rewarder of them that diligently...

...their good works is pleasing to him d." Their " prayer and alms-deeds come up before him ; for in every nation he that feareth God and worketh righteousness, is accepted of him e." And it is their study and work to do those things that please him, and walking in all pleasingness...

...in it ; by which we may conjecture, what he thought of all the world b. And I know " that in every nation he that feareth God, and worketh righteousness, is accepted of him ;" and that "he that cometh to God, must believe that God is, and that he is the rewarder of them that...

...referring to the texts, which declare, that "to him that hath by improvement shall be given, and, in every nation he that feareth God and worketh righteousness, is accepted of him;" and by observing, that believing in the being of God, and that he is the rewarder of them that diligently...

...:" 5 and even Peter himself was instructed by a vision, before he ventured to declare that "in every nation he that feareth God and worketh righteousness is accepted of Him." 8 So corrupt and deceitful is the human heart : which is capable of finding even in its spiritual privileges...

...Gen. iv. 7. ', Cornelius, thy prayers and thine alms are come up for a memorial before God. In every nation he that feareth God, and worketh righteousness, is accepted of him ;" Acts x. 3, 4. 34, 35. " Know you not that to whom ye yield yourselves servants to obey, his servants...

...mistake, he exclaimed, " Of a truth, I perceive that God is not a respecter of persons ! but in every nation, he that feareth God, and worketh righteousness, is accepted of him." But Cornelius here was himself an instance of the divine sovereignty, in his being regenerated, while many...

...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 of him.' But where the Gospel is proclaimed, communion with the church by the participation of its ordinances, at...