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
| Methodist Church - 1825 - 512 pages
...lightens every man that cometh into the world, shall, on their death, enter into Paradise ; for in every nation he that feareth God and worketh righteousness is accepted of him. But how many of the Gentiles, in any nation of the earth, do really act up to the dictates of that... | |
| Devotional exercises - 1819 - 286 pages
...work into judgment, with every secret thing, whether it be good, or whether it be evil. 2. In every nation he that feareth God and worketh righteousness is accepted of him ; but the wicked are objects of his displeasure, and are exposed to the awful effects of his angry... | |
| Samuel Drew - Rationalism - 1820 - 130 pages
...at a loss to determine. The Bible, instead of countenancing your assertion, unequivocally declares, that " in every nation, he that feareth God, and worketh righteousness, is accepted with him."* On the finally incorrigible, indeed, it denounces the miseries of a future state ; but... | |
| Thomas Scott - Bible - 1820 - 346 pages
...every work into jutlgiu with every secret thing, whether it be gooti or whether it be evil. 3. In every nation he that feareth God and worketh righteousness is accepted of him; but the wicked are objects of his displeasure, and are exposed to the awful effects of hiangry resentments.... | |
| Jared Sparks, Francis William Pitt Greenwood - Unitarianism - 1821 - 364 pages
...imparted to every man that cometh into the world, as well before as since the coming of Jesus Christ; that in every nation, he that feareth God and worketh righteousness is accepted with him; and this without being derogatory from the propriety and necessity of a particular visible... | |
| George Fox - Society of Friends - 1821 - 420 pages
...said to Cornelius, " of a truth I perceive, there is no respect of persons with God ; but in every nation he that feareth God, and worketh righteousness, is accepted of him." So the Jews might look before, as if the Lord had only a respect for them, as the professors do now... | |
| 1822 - 570 pages
...frantic assertions, they should be put in the same class. " Our Creator is Jove," and bus declared, that " in every nation, he that feareth God and worketh righteousness, is accepted of him ;" and it is not to be endured, that any man should insinuate concerning the pious who are out of his... | |
| Arminianism - 1821 - 992 pages
...so far as he believed they followed honestly the best means in their power. His creed was, "In every nation he that feareth God and worketh righteousness, is accepted of him." We now come to the period just before his death. He had, up to the last Sabbath he spent on earth, diligently... | |
| Christianity - 1822 - 792 pages
...respect to the knowledge of his will. But this does not affect the main position. It is still true, that ' in every nation, he that feareth God and worketh righteousness is accepted with him ,' and that, ' if there be a willing mind it i» accepted according to that a man hath, and... | |
| 1822 - 396 pages
...language implies that they may come, and that the fault is in themselves if they do not. " In every nation, he that feareth God, and worketh righteousness, is accepted of him." Such was the language of Peter on occasion of the admission of Cornelius the centurion into the church.... | |
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