 | Richard Claridge - Quakers - 1836 - 350 pages
...though all men have not the outward history, yet the love and mercy of God is manifested unto all : " and in every nation, he that feareth God, and worketh righteousness, is accepted with him; for God is no respecter of persons," Acts, x. 34, 35. His light shines in all, his grace... | |
 | John Wesley - Methodist Church - 1836 - 582 pages
..." rich in mercy to all that call upon him," according to the light they have ; and that " in every nation, he that feareth God and worketh righteousness, is accepted of him." 4. But to return. This is the nature of that love, whereof the apostle is here speaking. But what are... | |
 | Thomas Myers - 1836 - 252 pages
...and Early Progress of Christianity. — Encyc. Metrop. t Acts xi. 19. he only perceived that in every nation, " he that feareth God and worketh righteousness, is accepted of Him." Yet strange as the admission of the devout Gentiles to equal privileges with the children of Abraham... | |
 | African Americans - 1837 - 268 pages
...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... | |
 | Robert Nelson - Church year - 1837 - 632 pages
...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.... | |
 | Daniel Atkinson Clark - Sermons, American - 1837 - 336 pages
...conversion of Cornelius, soon showed the world that the Jews had ceased to be God's people and that in every nation he that feareth God and worketh righteousness is accepted of him. Soon churches were established in many places among the Gentiles, and from that day to this the gospel... | |
 | Gilbert Burnet (bp. of Salisbury.) - 1837 - 642 pages
...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... | |
 | David Abeel - Missions - 1838 - 278 pages
...another dispensation. However dim the light they have, by that light and that alone they are to be judged. If they follow its guidance, they shall receive...punishment ; or will not the remedial economy avail to their pardon as well as to ours ? The fact that they have no knowledge of a Saviour, only places them... | |
 | David Abeel - Missions - 1838 - 252 pages
...equitable premises which have been quoted, — though misapplied, — that " the Gentiles who have not the law, are a law unto themselves," and " in every...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 pages
...brother 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... | |
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God is no respecter of persons, but in every nation he that feareth God and worketh righteousness is accepted of Him. 
