 | John Wesley - 1827 - 548 páginas
...a lie in my right hand 1 Am I not in the waj of destruction ?' (p. 417.) " St. Peter says, indeed, That ' in every nation he that feareth God and worketh righteousness is accepted of him.' But if there were very few (among the J«ws) who feared God, very few in those learned nations of the... | |
 | 1827 - 616 páginas
...bearing witness" — (to its truth and purity.) Rom. B. 14, 15. And hence the same Spirit testifies that "in every nation, he that feareth God and worketh righteousness, is accepted of him," Acts x. 35. Now, the common principles of equity assure us that an upright heathen must be thus accepted,... | |
 | Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of Friends (Hicksite : 1827-1955) - 1878 - 756 páginas
...tended to broaden and liberalize his views, and sympathies, and led him often to the acknowledgment, that "in every nation, he that feareth God and worketh righteousness, is accepted with Him." For a few months before his departure, his physical powers gradually declined, and for some... | |
 | Adam Clarke - 1827 - 288 páginas
...lightens every man that cometh into the world, shall on their death, enter into Paradise ; for in every nation he that feareth God and worketh righteousness is accepted of him. But how many of the Gentiles, in any nation of the earth, do' really act Up to the dictates ol' that... | |
 | 1828 - 924 páginas
...and onr Lord and his apostles published, this religion, was it not as true as it is at this moment, that in every nation he that feareth God and worketh righteousness is accepted of him ? As far as our argument against the necessity of diffusing our beneficent faith can be maintained... | |
 | 1829 - 434 páginas
...experience teaches, and. God's own word declares, of his paternal character and mercy. We believe, that in every nation he that feareth God and worketh righteousness is accepted of him ; that whosoever lives according to the light he has, shall never be condemned for the want of opportunities... | |
 | Church of England, Thomas Newland - 1829 - 696 páginas
...nelius, (Acts, x. 34.) " Of a truth I perceive, " that God is no respecter of persons ; but in " every nation he that feareth God and worketh " righteousness, is accepted of him." These passages seem to import, that those who make the best use of the measure of light that is allowed... | |
 | John Wesley - 1830 - 568 páginas
...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... | |
 | Richard Baxter - 1830 - 580 páginas
...righteous persons in it ; by which we may conjecture, what he thought of all the world b. And I know " that in every nation he that feareth God, and worketh righteousness, is accepted of him ;" and that "he that cometh to God, must believe that God is, and that he is the rewarder of them that... | |
 | Thomas Sherlock, Thomas Smart Hughes - 1830 - 500 páginas
...rule of righteousness prescribed and ordained by God himself. And therefore, when St. Peter says, ' that in every nation he that feareth God, and worketh righteousness, is accepted of him,' he is not to be understood as limiting the mercies of God to certain persons of the best character,... | |
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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. 
