 religion ' means the love and wor"ship of God and the love and service of man. We believe the "Scripture that of a truth God is no respecter of persons, but that "in every nation he that feareth God and worketh righteousness is "accepted of Him.  The Christian Observer - Page 4261813Full view - About this book
 | Missions - 1853 - 840 pages
...encouraging to the friends of Missions, while they serve to illustrate the truth of the inspired declaration, that in every nation he that feareth God and worketh righteousness is accepted with Him. "Taamatn," writes the Rev. Charles Barff, tion, she was in the element most accordant of... | |
 | Mary Anne Galton Schimmelpenninck, Claude Lancelot - France - 1813 - 318 pages
...3. No man can say that Jesus is the Lord but by the Holy Spirit. 1 COR. chap. xii. ver. 3. In every nation he that feareth God and worketh righteousness is accepted of him. ACTS, chap. x. ver. 35. LONDON: . . PRINTED FOR J. AND A. ARCH, CORNHILL. 1813. J. M•Creery, Printer,... | |
 | William Cobbett - Great Britain - 1814 - 722 pages
...attention, in this coun- church authority than St. Athanasius, the [246 Apostle Peter, assures us, that " in every nation he that feareth God, and worketh righteousness, is accepted with him ;" and the great Apostle of the Gentiles, St. Paul, seems to hold a very different doctrine... | |
 | New Church gen. confer - 1857 - 1220 pages
...of the prevailing doctrines of Christianity admit of, the truth of the Apostolic declaration :-^-" That in every nation he that feareth God and worketh righteousness is accepted with Him." (Acts x. 35.) As the entire number from which the extract is taken is very instructive,... | |
 | New Church gen. confer - 1842 - 502 pages
...God. Its doctrines resemble their divine source ; for " God is no respecter of persons; but in every nation, he that feareth God and worketh righteousness is accepted of him.'' That God is the Lord ; and the Lord Jesus Christ is the only God. " Happy is that people whose God... | |
 | Robert Nelson - 1815 - 564 pages
...of Abraham and other People, and no one Land more pecultarized 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 clean come to Nothing, or become... | |
 | Sarah Trimmer - 1817 - 456 pages
...which he has limited this privilege. He does not say, that men of all nations are accepted of G6o, but that in every nation he that feareth GOD and worketh righteousness is accepted of him. The meaning of this will be best explained from a text in one of St. Paul's Epistles *, '• Without... | |
 | John Kenrick - Bible - 1817 - 650 pages
...men's lives, but to save them ;" that those " who had not the law were a law unto themselves," and that " in every nation he that feareth God and worketh righteousness is accepted with him." Such was the spirit of Christianity. Of what systems is it the spirit now ? Of those, which... | |
 | John Henry Hobart - Fasts and feasts - 1817 - 348 pages
...relation of what had happened to Cornelius fully convinced him that God was no respecter of persons ; and that in every nation, he that feareth God and worketh righteousness is accepted with him." Q. Wluit was St. Peter's conduct in the dispute between the Jewish and Gentile converts?... | |
 | Methodist Church - 1880 - 820 pages
...we coincide in tho rejection of the Westminster doctrine, believing with St. Peter, Acts x, 34, 35, that " in every nation he that feareth God and worketh righteousness is accepted of him." But to the " Independent's " very pregnant addition, " and Atheists in Christian lands," Wesleyanism... | |
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