 | Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church (1802-1822) - 1827 - 522 pages
...first born. k Acts xi. 18, 20, 21. When they heard these things, they held their peace, and glorified God, saying, Then hath God also to the Gentiles granted repentance unto life. And some of them were men of Cyprus and Cyrene. which, when they were come to Antioch, spake unto the... | |
 | Nathaniel Lardner - 1827 - 638 pages
...was I that I could withstand God* When they heard these things, they held their peace, and glorified God, saying, Then hath God also to the Gentiles granted repentance unto life." A most just conclusion certainly from such premises. In Acts xv. is the same argument or reasoning... | |
 | Nathaniel Lardner - 1827 - 546 pages
...eat with them ;" he having rehearsed the whole matter to them, they were satisfied, " and glorified God, saying ; Then hath God also to the Gentiles granted repentance unto life," Acts x. and xi. 1 — 8. Of which St. Peter takes particular notice in his speech at the council, Acts... | |
 | William Dodd - 1828 - 522 pages
...to Israel, &c.— Acts v. 30, 31. God gave them the like gift as he did unto us, &c. They glorified God, saying, Then hath God also to the Gentiles granted repentance unto life. Now they which were scattered, &c. 253 spake unto the Grecians, &c. and the hand of the Lord was with... | |
 | Timothy Kenrick - 1828 - 332 pages
...18. When they heard these things, they held their peace, " they had no more to say," and glorified God, saying, then hath God also to the Gentiles granted repentance unto life. Repentance does not here signify reformation of conduct, but merely a change of opinion from heathenism... | |
 | Charles James Blomfield - 1828 - 416 pages
...in the true spirit of evangelical charity, at this enlargement of the divine mercy ; and glorified God, saying, Then hath God also to the Gentiles granted repentance unto life. * Josh. xxiv. 15. f Actsx. 1. It is deserving of remark, that when certain, who had been converted... | |
 | 1828 - 828 pages
...I, that I could withstand God ? 18 When they heard thesethings, they held their peace, and glorified God, saying, Then hath God also to the Gentiles granted repentance unto life. 19 IT Now they which were scattered abroad, upon the persecution that arose about Stephen, travelled... | |
 | Francis William Pitt Greenwood - 1828 - 162 pages
...they impressed by the force and reason of his words, that they acquiesced in peace, ' and glorified God, saying, Then hath God also to the Gentiles granted repentance unto life.' Not long after this, Peter was put into prison by Herod, but was set free by an angel. He then went... | |
 | Richard Mant - 1828 - 634 pages
...that he had acted in conformity with the will of God, so that " they held their peace, and glorified God, saying, Then hath God also to the Gentiles granted repentance unto lifeP." Thus the door of faith was opened by Peter to the Gentile world ; and thenceforth the Gospel... | |
 | 1829 - 396 pages
...that I should withstand God ?" " When they heard these things, they held their peace, and glorified God, saying, then hath God also to the gentiles granted repentance unto life." It is pleasing to observe, how ready these good men were to yield to the truth ; and how sincerely... | |
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Forasmuch then as God gave them the like gift as he did unto us, who believed on the Lord Jesus Christ ; what was I, that I could withstand God? 18 When they heard these things, they held their peace, and glorified God, saying, Then hath God also to the... 
