 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
 | Miss Stockdale (Mary R.), Mary R. Stockdale - 1821 - 454 pages
...•CHAPTER XII. ''tii, ' ' . . i Then Peter opened his month, and said, Of a truth I perceive that God is no respecter of persons : But that in every nation, he that feareth him and ivorketh righteousness, is accepted with him. THE ACTS OF THE APOSTLBS, Chap. x. IN all the... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Guide - 1821 - 488 pages
...history of every nation of antiquity, we should find continual proof that God has, in all ages, been " no respecter of 'persons, but that in every nation, he that feareth him and worketh righteousness is accepted with him.'" (Acts x. 34, compare Rom. ii. 12.) But in addition... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Aaron Bancroft - Sermons, American - 1822 - 468 pages
...those whom lie had assembled, the apostle, in surprise exclaims — " 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 with him." Paul, in his first preaching to the Gentiles,... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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,... | |
 | 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.... | |
 | 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... | |
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