 | 1818 - 806 pages
...institutions, must rest upon their accordance with the intentions of Heaven. " If this counsel or this work be of men, it will come to nought ; but if it be of God, ye cannot overthrow it." This is the ground every ingenuous mind must occupy ; for it is here the materials... | |
 | Alexander Allan - 1820 - 264 pages
...What Gamaliel said to the Jewish council, is truly applicable to the present case : " If this work be of men it will come to nought ; but if " it be of God, ye cannot overthrow it."* It is true, the opposition made to it is great and formidable, and the steady... | |
 | 1820 - 704 pages
...sensible advice : " Refrain from these men, and let them alone : for, if this counsel, or this work, be of men, it will come to nought; but, if it be of God, ye cannot overthrow it, lest haply ye be found even to fight against God." • The Jewish magistrates,... | |
 | Jedidiah Morse, Elijah Parish - 1820 - 332 pages
...in letters of gold: "Refrain from these men, and let them alone; for if this counsel or this work be of men, it -Will come to nought; but if it be of Got/, ye cannot overthrow it; lent hajily ye be found even to fight against God."* This divine maxim... | |
 | 492 pages
...hitherto so fully proved the justness, <jf Gamaliel's observation, " If this counsel, or this worjt, " be of men, it will come to nought ; but if it be of " GOJ>, ye cannot overthrow it, " that we may rest in confident assurance of the ultimate triumph of... | |
 | Jared Sparks, Francis William Pitt Greenwood - 1822 - 366 pages
...the Christian taith. Refrain from these men, and let them alone; for if this counsel or this work be of men, it will come to nought; but if it be of God, ye cannot overt/trow it. Acts v. 38, 39. Such was the wise counsel of Gamaliel, and it is one object... | |
 | General Association of New Hampshire - 1821 - 406 pages
...oppose it, "lest haply ye be found even to fight against God. For if this counsel, or this work be of men, it will come to nought : but if it be of God, ye cannot overthrow it." Whatever plans, great and good men have devised for the benefit of mankind,... | |
 | 1850 - 444 pages
...Gamaliel's counsel : " Refrain from these men anc let them alone ; for if this counsel or this work be of men, it will come to nought ; but if it be of God ye cannot overthrow it; lest haply ye be found even to fight against God." Mikha conversed with him... | |
 | 1821 - 614 pages
...our religion now, as was said of it at its very first foundation, " If this counsel, or this work, be of men, it will come to nought, but if it be of God, ye cannot overthrow it f." But still we must not be idle. We must use * Isaiah xlix. 23. •f Acts... | |
 | George Fox - 1821 - 420 pages
...convinced them by arguments, as Acts 5. " Let them alone," said he, " for if this counsel or this work be of men, it will come to nought; but if it be of God, ye cannot overthrow it ; lest haply ye be found even to fight against God." So, to Gamaliel the council... | |
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Refrain from these men, and let them alone: for if this counsel or this work be of men, it will come to nought: But if it be of God, ye cannot overthrow it; lest haply ye be found even to fight against God. 
