 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
 | Richard Baxter - Theology - 1830 - 616 pages
...of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God ;" John i. 12. " In every nation he that feareth God and worketh righteousness, is accepted of him ;" Acts x. 35. " He hath made us accepted in the beloved ;" Ephes. i. 6. ii. 14. 16. Col. i. 20. "... | |
 | John Bird Sumner (abp. of Canterbury.) - 1831 - 722 pages
...Je\v> were so unwilling to receive, and which only a special vision led even Peter to acknowledge, that " in every nation, he that feareth God, and worketh righteousness, is accepted with him." (Acts x. 35.) The reason why it should be so, that the children of the kingdom should be... | |
 | Richard Baxter - Christian life - 1831 - 638 pages
...Gen. iv. 7. ', Cornelius, thy prayers and thine alms are come up for a memorial before God. In every nation he that feareth God, and worketh righteousness, is accepted of him ;" Acts x. 3, 4. 34, 35. " Know you not that to whom ye yield yourselves servants to obey, his servants... | |
 | William Orme - 1831 - 372 pages
...referring to the texts, which declare, that "to him that hath by improvement shall be given, and, in every nation he that feareth God and worketh righteousness, is accepted of him;" and by observing, that believing in the being of God, and that he is the rewarder of them that diligently... | |
 | Robert Hall - 1832 - 542 pages
...which, he begs it to be remembered that the New Testament teaches, that God is no respecter of persons ; that in every nation, he that feareth God and worketh righteousness, is accepted of him ; that we may be certain there will not be wanting in the innumerable assembly around the throne, some... | |
 | Robert Hall - Baptists - 1832 - 542 pages
...which, he begs it to be remembered that the New Testament teaches, that God is no respecter of persons ; that in every nation, he that feareth God and worketh righteousness, is accepted of him ; that we may be certain there will not be wanting in the innumerable assembly around the throne, some... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Edward Young, William Danby - 1832 - 306 pages
...to us: for they must yield to the more sacred injunctions of the Gospel, in which we read that "God is no respecter of persons, but that in every nation he that feareth him and worketh righteousness, is accepted with him." This, we may be sure, will accord with every... | |
 | 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,... | |
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