 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
 | Eleazer Sherman - Baptists - 1832 - 308 pages
...heaven and earth, and that he is just, merciful and true ; and his love extends to all his creatures; so that in every nation, he that feareth God and worketh righteousness, is accepted of him. I see nothing in the revelation of God, which leads me to believe he created one of the human family... | |
 | Charles Simeon - 1832 - 664 pages
...man," they account as nothing. But so did 418 ECCLESIASTES, XII. 13, 14. [847. not Peter, who says, that " in every nation, he that feareth God and worketh righteousness, is accepted of him*." Nor was Paul of their opinion ; for he has declared (and in the very epistle where he most enlarges... | |
 | American Doctrinal Tract Society - 1832 - 322 pages
...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... | |
 | John Mitchell Mason - Theology - 1832 - 458 pages
...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,... | |
 | Isaac Taylor - Enthusiasm - 1833 - 536 pages
...Apostle — That God puts no difference between man and man ; — is no respecter of persons ; but that " in EVERY NATION he that feareth God, and worketh righteousness is accepted of him." — Bright expansion of heavenly glory ! Welcome news from on high ! with emphasis may we say, in hearing... | |
 | William Johnson Fox - Ethics - 1833 - 348 pages
...worth a divine interposition to give the Apostle Peter a clear and heart-felt perception of the truth that ' in every nation he that feareth God and worketh righteousness is accepted of him ; ' it must certainly be worth some human zeal, sacrifice, and effort, to bring home that truth to... | |
 | William Johnson Fox - Ethics - 1833 - 302 pages
...worth a divine interposition to give the Apostle Peter a clear and heart-felt perception of the truth that 'in every nation he that feareth God and worketh righteousness is accepted of him;' it must certainly be worth some human zeal, sacrifice, and effort, to bring home that truth to the... | |
 | Lant Carpenter - Hinduism - 1833 - 152 pages
...for what reasons?') which I pause to answer, as I am led to believe from reason, what is set forth in scripture, that ' in every nation he that feareth God and worketh righteousness is accepted with him,' in whatever form of worship he may have been taught to glorify God. Nevertheless, I presume... | |
 | Isaac Taylor - 1833 - 532 pages
...another Apostle—That God puts no difference between man and man ;— is no respecter of persons; but that " in EVERY NATION he that feareth God, and worketh righteousness is accepted of him."—Bright expansion of heavenly glory! Welcome news from on high! with emphasis may we say, in... | |
 | John Kershaw Craig - 1833 - 328 pages
...all that accompanies salvation, to be all of grace, yet that here, in this chapter, it is declared that " in every nation, he that feareth God, and worketh righteousness, is accepted with him ;"—that while Revelation declares, though not perhaps in so many words, yet in its general... | |
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