 | American Doctrinal Tract Society - 1832 - 322 pages
...I can_ repeat the sentiment of Peter : " 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." Obj. 6. The doctrine of election represents God as unjust. Am. It will not be pretended,... | |
 | John Mitchell Mason - 1832 - 458 pages
...mercy of the Saviour is co-extensive with the ruin into which sin has plunged mankind. And ' in every nation, he that feareth God and worketh righteousness is accepted of him.' But where the Gospel is proclaimed, communion with the church by the participation of its ordinances,... | |
 | Robert Hall - 1832 - 542 pages
...to be remembered that the New Testament teaches, that God is no respecter of persons ; that in every nation, he that feareth God and worketh righteousness, is accepted of him ; that we may be certain there will not be wanting in the innumerable assembly around the throne, some... | |
 | Charles Simeon - 1832 - 676 pages
...account as nothing. But so did 418 ECCLESIASTES, XII. 13, 14. [847. not Peter, who says, that " in every nation, he that feareth God and worketh righteousness, is accepted of him*." Nor was Paul of their opinion ; for he has declared (and in the very epistle where he most enlarges... | |
 | Robert Hall - 1832 - 542 pages
...to be remembered that the New Testament teaches, that God is no respecter of persons ; that in every nation, he that feareth God and worketh righteousness, is accepted of him ; that we may be certain there will not be wanting in the innumerable assembly around the throne, some... | |
 | Eleazer Sherman - 1832 - 308 pages
...and that he is just, merciful and true ; and his love extends to all his creatures; so that in every nation, he that feareth God and worketh righteousness, is accepted of him. I see nothing in the revelation of God, which leads me to believe he created one of the human family... | |
 | John Fletcher - 1833 - 602 pages
...that make them remarkably emphatical ? " 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 of him." Surely, sir, you will never insist upon a formal recantation of a plain scripture. FIRST OBJECTION.... | |
 | William Johnson Fox - 1833 - 302 pages
...interposition to give the Apostle Peter a clear and heart-felt perception of the truth that 'in every nation he that feareth God and worketh righteousness is accepted of him;' it must certainly be worth some human zeal, sacrifice, and effort, to bring home that truth to the... | |
 | Matthew Henry - 1833 - 774 pages
...precious, whether conformists or nonconformists, in whom you have seen any thing of Christ ;' for, in every nation, he that feareth God, and worketh righteousness, is accepted of him, and should be so of us. While your faithful minister was with you, you know what a monitor he was to... | |
 | William Johnson Fox - 1833 - 302 pages
...interposition to give the Apostle Peter a clear and heart-felt perception of the truth that 'in every nation he that feareth God and worketh righteousness is accepted of him;' it must certainly be worth some human zeal, sacrifice, and effort, to bring home that truth to the... | |
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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. 
