 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.  The Christian Observer - Pagina 4261813Volledige weergave - Over dit boek
 | 1825 - 516 pagina’s
...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 of that... | |
 | Elihu Coleman - 1825 - 28 pagina’s
...Apostle Peter saith, " Now I perceive of a truth that God is no respecter of persons, but in every nation he that feareth God and worketh righteousness, is accepted of him." Now although the negroes might not have the understanding that some other nations have, then I do believe... | |
 | William Laurence Brown - 1826 - 350 pagina’s
...Abraham, and to Cornelius the centurion.b More extensively still is it said in the passage already quoted, that, " in every nation, he that feareth God and worketh righteousness, is accepted of him ;" to which may be added, " he that cometh to God must believe that he is, and is a rewarder of them... | |
 | John William Fletcher - 1826 - 610 pagina’s
...have ! — This is as impossible, as that the Holy Spirit should lie when he testifies, ' In every nation, he that feareth God and worketh righteousness, is accepted of him ;' according to one or another of the divine dispensations : He is accepted as a converted Heathen,... | |
 | John Wesley - 1827 - 590 pagina’s
...how does it appear, that this relates to justification at all ? " St. Peter also declares, in every nation he that feareth God and worketh righteousness is accepted of him, Acts x. 34." He is : but none can either fear God or work righteousness, till he believes according... | |
 | 1827 - 548 pagina’s
...revealed by Jesus Christ ; and the gospel assures us that with God there is no respect of persons ; and that in every nation he that feareth God and worketh righteousness is accepted of him. I have no doubt that a great number of my Loo Choo brethren now possess that humble and benevolent... | |
 | 1827 - 616 pagina’s
...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,... | |
 | John Wesley - 1827 - 548 pagina’s
...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... | |
 | Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of Friends (Hicksite : 1827-1955) - 1878 - 756 pagina’s
...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 pagina’s
...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... | |
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