| 1837 - 268 Seiten
...deceased was one of those who has demonstrated the truth of that portion of Scripture, " That in every nation he that feareth God and worketh righteousness, is accepted of him." He was concerned in early, life to do justly, love mercy, and to walk humbly with his God ; and by... | |
| Gilbert Burnet (bp. of Salisbury.) - 1837 - 642 Seiten
...Peter said to Cornelius,' Of a truth I perceive 85. that God is no respecter of persons; but in every nation he that feareth God, and worketh righteousness, is accepted of him.' Those places seem to import, that those who make the best use they can of that small measure of light... | |
| Robert Nelson - 1837 - 632 Seiten
...of Abraham and other people, and no one land more peculiarized than another, but of every land and nation, he that feareth God and worketh righteousness is accepted of him ; that badge of approbation, and seal of singularity, must either come to nothing, or become unnecessary.... | |
| Thomas Watson - 1838 - 812 Seiten
...within the line of communication and have a right to the privileges of adoption as well as the Jews, Acts x. 35., " In every nation he that feareth God, and worketh righteousness, is accepted with him." Posilion 2. Adoption takes in both sexes, females as well as males, 2 Cor. vi. 18., " I... | |
| John Mitchell Mason - 1838 - 266 Seiten
...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... | |
| David Abeel - 1838 - 278 Seiten
...misapplied, — that " the Gentiles who have not the law, are a law unto themselves," and " in every nation, he that feareth God and worketh righteousness is accepted of him." Instead of gathering hope from these revealed principles of the divine administration, they tend to... | |
| John Colby - 1838 - 330 Seiten
...Colby, you are very liberal. Surely 1 am ; I have a free gospel to preach to alt mankind : and in every nation he that feareth God and worketh righteousness, is accepted of him. Is this the ground that Christ laid out, and the apostles built upon ; and have we not wandered from... | |
| Matthew Henry - 1839 - 414 Seiten
...precious, whether conformists or nonconformists, in whom you have seen any thing of Christ ;' for, in every nation, he that feareth God, and worketh righteousness, is accepted of him, and should be so of us. While your faithful minister was with you, you know what a monitor he was to... | |
| 1840 - 792 Seiten
...divine love, that God is no respecter of persons, but that in every communion, as well as in every nation, he that feareth God and worketh righteousness is accepted of him." I begin with , where was no gospel ministry, and no Sabbath school, and where the people were proverbially... | |
| Dennis Platt - 1840 - 48 Seiten
...unwarrantable, because nowhere sanctioned by Scripture. " God is no respecter of persons, but in every nation he that feareth God and worketh righteousness is accepted of him." The Baptists will not accept of any, though ever so righteous, and ever so regularly baptized, unless... | |
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