...saw the vision of the sheet let down from heaven long before that event; and learned that "in ev^ry nation he that feareth God and worketh righteousness is accepted of him." Long before that event the apostle turned to the Gentiles, saying to the Jews, "since ye count yourselves...

...had been instructed in this great truth, that with God is no respect of persons, but that in every " nation, he that feareth God and worketh righteousness is accepted of him ;" —even this same Peter withdrew himself from the society of believers, for the sake of pleasing...

...the Lord and he will have mercy upon him; and to our God for he will abundantly pardon." " In every nation he that feareth God and worketh righteousness, is accepted of him." But the difficulty is, that, widely extended as the gates of salvation are, and simple as is the entrance,...

...who were all nnder the gracious dispensation which St. Heter describes in these words, " In EVEÍIV NATION he that feareth God, and worketh righteousness, is accepted of him." — 4. If, because St. Paul decries the absolute ceremonies of Moses's law, it follows that the taonil...

...conviction, " that God is no respecter of persons ;" that not among the Jews only, but that in every nation, " He that feareth God and worketh righteousness is accepted of him." That the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, was the great sovereign disposer of all events—the father...

..." 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...

...and Early Progress of Christianity. — Encyc. Metrop. t Acts xi. 19. he only perceived that in every nation, " he that feareth God and worketh righteousness, is accepted of Him." Yet strange as the admission of the devout Gentiles to equal privileges with the children of Abraham...

...deceased was one of those who has demonstrated the truth of that portion of Scripture, " That in every nation he that feareth God and worketh righteousness, is accepted of him." He was concerned in early, life to do justly, love mercy, and to walk humbly with his God ; and by...

...conversion of Cornelius, soon showed the world that the Jews had ceased to be God's people and that in every nation he that feareth God and worketh righteousness is accepted of him. Soon churches were established in many places among the Gentiles, and from that day to this the gospel...

...of Abraham and other people, and no one land more peculiarized than another, but of every land and nation, he that feareth God and worketh righteousness is accepted of him ; that badge of approbation, and seal of singularity, must either come to nothing, or become unnecessary....