| William Hutchinson - 1795 - 386 pages
...pursue the universal religion, the religion of nature. Worshippers of the God of mercy, vie believe that in every nation, he that feareth him and worketh righteousness is accepted of him. All Masons, therefore, whether Christians, Jews, Makcinedatts, who violate not the rule of aright,... | |
| Timothy Kenrick - 1805 - 396 pages
...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 ; " That we are justified freely by the grace of God,... | |
| Tobias Smollett - 1805 - 582 pages
...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 " who believe :" but it can only apply to such as live... | |
| George Buist - 1809 - 350 pages
...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 of sheep whom they brought into the Redeemer's... | |
| Eliphalet Wheeler Gilbert, Benjamin Ferris - 1823 - 524 pages
...them ; it was not till then that he perceived " of a truth that God is no respecter of persons, but that in every nation, he that feareth him and worketh righteousness is accepted of him." And it appears by the history that Peter was afterwards called to a sharp account for his condescension.... | |
| Catharine Maria Sedgwick - 1824 - 294 pages
...to see a young and tender plant put into soil it don't love ; it never takes root fairly — never thrives. Now, my advice is that you pluck up courage,...gazed at the old man as if she discredited her senses. " Are you a shaker ?" she asked. " A shaker, girl !" he replied, laughing — " yea, and a very good... | |
| 1828 - 476 pages
...teachings, that the Apostle's declaration expressed the truth, that " God is no respecter of persons, but that in every nation, he that feareth him and worketh righteousness, is accepted of him." Having thus satisfied my mind as to the incorrectness of the common notions on this doctrine, I was... | |
| Jane Marcet - 1826 - 456 pages
...apportioning to nations the results due by general laws to their conduct as nations, and yet know, that in every nation he that " feareth him, and worketh righteousness, is accepted of him," and that hereafter every man shall receive according to his works, — we must confess that the judgment... | |
| John Lauris Blake - 1832 - 360 pages
...apportioning to nations the results due by general laws to their conduct as nations, and yet know, that in every nation he that " feareth him, and worketh righteousness, is accepted of him," and that hereafter every man shall receive according to his works,—we must confess that the judgment... | |
| Richard Whately - 1837 - 410 pages
...warning Christians that God is " no respecter of persons," (as it had been first revealed to Peter,) and that " in every nation he that feareth Him, and worketh righteousness, is accepted of Him" — not only are the workers of righteousness cautioned against supposing that the Jews by nature,... | |
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