 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
 | Charles Bradley - 1822 - 504 pages
...great price in God's eyes. He despises all worldly glory, and accepts no man's person ; " but in every nation, he that feareth God and worketh righteousness, is accepted of him," Acts x. 35. Indeed, if the judgment of God went by the same rule that man's does, we might value ourselves... | |
 | John Locke - Philosophy - 1823 - 602 pages
...extirpated throughout the world." For above two thousand years after Noah's time, St. Peter tells us, " that in every nation, he that feareth God, and worketh righteousness, is accepted by him," Acts x. 35. By which words, and by the occasion on which they were spoken, it is manifest,... | |
 | Education - 1825 - 422 pages
...nor yet at Jerusalem" are the true worshippers now directed to worship the Father ; " but in every nation he that feareth God and worketh righteousness is accepted of him ;" (Acts x. 35) and, sprinkled with the atoning blood of Christ, and clothed in his righteousness,... | |
 | Rowland Hill - 1824 - 500 pages
...that " his alms were had in remembrance in the sight pf .God," Nay further -Sir, it is actually said, that " in every nation he that feareth God and worketh righteousness is accepted of him." 100 "'DIALOGUE xjivi*."- '';" :'--* .,« 3 .consistently with themselves. Do you therefore, thiuk you... | |
 | John Henry Hobart - Fasts and feasts - 1824 - 344 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.a Q. What was St. Peter's conduct in the dispute between the Jewish and Gentile converts ?... | |
 | Rowland Hill - Christian life - 1825 - 330 pages
...that "his alms were had in remembrance in the sight of God." Nay farther Sir, it is actually said, that "in every nation he that feareth God and worketh righteousness is accepted of him." Loveg. But Sir, even the chapteryou refer to, gives up the point for which yon unhappily contend. Was... | |
 | Discourse - 1825 - 58 pages
...And St. Peter, instead of confining the church of God to any one place or country, plainly asserts, that in every nation he that feareth God, and worketh righteousness, is accepted with him. Acts x. 35. It is evident from the pages of scripture alone, that, in the days of the apostles,... | |
 | Jared Sparks - Theology - 1825 - 384 pages
...Christian revelation ; as it represents to them the universal goodness of the common father of mankind, and that " in every nation, he that feareth God, and worketh righteousness, is accepted with him ;" and, consequently, encourages universal benevolence, and an esteem of the whole rational... | |
 | 1842 - 982 pages
...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 adminiitration, they tend to... | |
 | Education - 1825 - 404 pages
...nor yet at Jerusalem" are the true worshippers now directed to worship the Father ; " but in every nation he that feareth God and worketh righteousness is accepted of him ;" (Acts x. 35) and, sprinkled with the atoning blood of Christ, and clothed in his righteousness,... | |
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