 | Jonathan Swift - 1814 - 468 pages
...philosophical schemes, which were narrow and confined, adapted to their peculiar towns, governments, or sects ; but, " in every nation, he that feareth God, and worketh righteousness, is accepted with him." Lastly, It is " without hypocrisy ;" it appears to be what it really is ; it is all of a piece. By... | |
 | William Cobbett - 1814 - 722 pages
...attention, in this coun- church authority than St. Athanasius, the [246 Apostle Peter, assures us, that " in every nation he that feareth God, and worketh righteousness, is accepted with him ;" and the great Apostle of the Gentiles, St. Paul, seems to hold a very different doctrine ; for he tells... | |
 | Joshua Marsden - 1814 - 244 pages
...may be saved, according to the dispensation under \vbicb they live. God is no respecter of persons, but in every nation, he that feareth God and worketh righteousness, is accepted of him. My earnest wish and prayer is, that religion, pure and undented religion, may spread to the... | |
 | New Church gen. confer - 1871 - 644 pages
...heavenly vision of the sheet let down from heaven to teach him the broad catholic lesson that, "In every nation he that feareth God and worketh righteousness is accepted with him ;" of the Apostle Paul who teaches that " The kingdom of God is righteousness, peace, and joy in the... | |
 | Jonathan Swift, Walter Scott - 1814 - 462 pages
...philosophical schemes, which were narrow and confined, adapted to their peculiar towns, governments, or sects; but, " in every nation, he that feareth God, and worketh righteousness, is accepted witli him." Lastly, It is " without hypocrisy ;" it appears to be what it really is ; it is all of... | |
 | New Church gen. confer - 1842 - 502 pages
...the faith of God. Its doctrines resemble their divine source ; for " God is no respecter of persons; but in every nation, he that feareth God and worketh righteousness is accepted of him.'' That God is the Lord ; and the Lord Jesus Christ is the only God. " Happy is that people... | |
 | John Evans - 1814 - 536 pages
...what evil hath he done? remonstrated Candour, and Liberality drew from his words this inference — In every nation, he that feareth God, and worketh righteousness, is accepted with him." However, to shew that neither my want of ill-uature nor my youthful inexperience led to my Reflections... | |
 | George Pretyman - 1815 - 588 pages
...believeth not, shall be damned (e). On the other hand we are told, " that God is no respecter of persons; but in every nation he that feareth God, and worketh righteousness, is accepted with him (f)" But such declarations must be considered as belonging to those only who were never made acquainted... | |
 | John Henry Hobart - 1817 - 348 pages
...what had happened to Cornelius fully convinced him that God was no respecter of persons ; and that in every nation, he that feareth God and worketh righteousness is accepted with him." Q. Wluit was St. Peter's conduct in the dispute between the Jewish and Gentile converts? A. St. Peter... | |
 | John Kenrick - 1817 - 650 pages
...lives, but to save them;" that those " who had not the law were a law unto themselves," and that " in every nation he that feareth God and worketh righteousness is accepted with him." Such was the spirit of Christianity. Of what systems is it the spirit now ? Of those, which pile together... | |
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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 with him. 
