 | Thomas Sherlock, Thomas Smart Hughes - 1830 - 500 页
...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,... | |
 | Richard Baxter - 1830 - 606 页
...their good works is pleasing to him d." Their " prayer and alms-deeds come up before him ; for in every nation he that feareth God and worketh righteousness, is accepted of him e." And it is their study and work to do those things that please him, and walking in all pleasingness... | |
 | Richard Baxter - 1830 - 616 页
...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 Wesley - 1830 - 568 页
..." 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 页
...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... | |
 | William Orme - 1831 - 376 页
...it, by 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... | |
 | John Bird Sumner (abp. of Canterbury.) - 1831 - 722 页
...the righteous. This too would be an error: for " the righteous is more excellent than his neighbour;" and " in every nation he that feareth God, and worketh righteousness, is accepted of him." What the words really tell us, is, first, the purpose of our Lord's coining ; of " God manifest in... | |
 | Richard Baxter - 1831 - 638 页
...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... | |
 | John Henry Hobart - 1832 - 256 页
...render futile and contemptible the ordinances which he has appointed as the means of communion with him. The Judge of the whole earth indeed will do right....feareth God and worketh righteousness, is accepted with him." But where the Gospel is proclaimed, communion with the church by the participation of its... | |
 | American Doctrinal Tract Society - 1832 - 322 页
...mistake, he exclaimed, " Of a truth, I perceive that God is not a respecter of persons ! but in every nation, he that feareth God, and worketh righteousness, is accepted of him." But Cornelius here was himself an instance of the divine sovereignty, in his being regenerated, while many... | |
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God is no respecter of persons, but in every nation he that feareth God and worketh righteousness is accepted of Him. 
