He then, for the first time in his life, discovered the heart-stirring and soul-inspiring truth, " that God is no respecter of persons ; but that in every nation, he that feareth God and worketh righteousness is accepted of him. The African Repository - Page 2521847Full view - About this book
| George Bishop - New England - 1703 - 598 pages
...know, from the least of you to the greatest ; for the Lord is no respecter of persons, but in every nation, he that feareth God, and worketh righteousness, is accepted of Him ; who is our hiding-place, and rock of sure defence, for us to flee unto, where we are kept safe in... | |
| Samuel Carr - Sermons, English - 1801 - 390 pages
...idea of the superior power of the God of Israel, and, at the same time, demonstrate that great truth, that in every nation, he that feareth God and worketh righteousness, is accepted with him. And, lastly, the Syrian captain might probably be as little -likely to relapse into idolatry... | |
| Religion - 1813 - 996 pages
...or in ttve Liturgy, Articles, and Homilies of the Church of England. While it r, said in Scripture, that " in every nation he that feareth God and worketh righteousness is accepted of him," we cannot deny the possibility of their salvation who never heard of the name of Christ. But at the... | |
| John Henry Hobart - Lord's Supper - 1804 - 316 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... | |
| Tobias Smollett - English literature - 1805 - 582 pages
...only, but for the sins of the whole world.'* And St. Peter, to the same purpose, assures us, that " God is no respecter of persons, but that in every nation, he that feareth him, and worketh righteousness, is accepted of him."- The text seem, to restrict salvation to those... | |
| Timothy Kenrick - 1805 - 396 pages
...which are inconsistent with it. Thus Peter says before Cornelius, " Of a truth I perceive that God is no respecter of persons, but that in every nation he that feareth him, and worketh righteousness, is accepted of him." And the apostle Paul tells us, Romans iii, 24... | |
| William Linn - Episcopacy - 1806 - 232 pages
...mercy of the Saviour is to-extensive with the ruin into which sin has plunged mankind, dnd, in every nation, he that feareth God, and worketh righteousness, is accepted of him." Again, " Separation from the prescrihed government and regular Priesthood of the Church, when it proceeds... | |
| George Buist - Sermons, American - 1809 - 350 pages
...bringing in Christ's sheep, teaching that circumcision or uncircumcision availed nothing, that God is no respecter of persons, but that in every nation he that feareth him and worketh righteousness is accepted of him. And such was their success; so great was the number... | |
| Mrs. Trimmer (Sarah) - 1810 - 456 pages
...to which he has hmited this privilege. He does not say, that men of all nations are accepted of GoD, 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 FAITH... | |
| John Wesley - Methodism - 1811 - 454 pages
...also : that he is " 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... | |
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