...themselves are done by the grace of God through his Holy Spirit. For St. Peter says that ' of every nation he that feareth God, and worketh righteousness, is accepted with him' (Acts x. 35). And Paul also, ' We cease not to pray for you, that you may walk worthy of the Lord, and in all...

...idea of the superior power of the God of Israel, and, at the same time, demonstrate that great truth, that in every nation, he that feareth God and worketh righteousness, is accepted with him. And, lastly, the Syrian captain might probably be as little -likely to relapse into idolatry in his...

...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 the...

...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 the...

...or in ttve Liturgy, Articles, and Homilies of the Church of England. While it r, said in Scripture, that " in every nation he that feareth God and worketh righteousness is accepted of him," we cannot deny the possibility of their salvation who never heard of the name of Christ. But...

...Spirit is our strength.1 The Lord I terve....is just. M. God is no respecter of persons: But in every nation he that feareth God and worketh righteousness, is accepted with him... .Acts x. 34, 35. IT is a common, artful device of the adversary to insinuate, '-' one part of scripture opposes and...

...things which are inconsistent with it. Thus Peter says before Cornelius, " Of a truth I perceive that God is no respecter of persons, but that in every nation he that feareth him, and worketh righteousness, is accepted of him." And the apostle Paul tells us, Romans iii, 24...

...only, but for the sins of the whole world.'* And St. Peter, to the same purpose, assures us, that " God is no respecter of persons, but that in every nation, he that feareth him, and worketh righteousness, is accepted of him."- The text seem, to restrict salvation to those...

...and bringing in Christ's sheep, teaching that circumcision or uncircumcision availed nothing, that God is no respecter of persons, but that in every nation he that feareth him and worketh righteousness is accepted of him. And such was their success; so great was the number...

...to which he has hmited this privilege. He does not say, that men of all nations are accepted of GoD, but that in every nation he that feareth GoD and worketh righteousness is accepted of him. The meaning of this will be best explained from a text in one of St. Paul's Epistles*, " Without...