...the Scriptures testify so plainly! If we had but the single declaration of Peter, that, ' In every nation he that feareth God and worketh righteousness is accepted with him,' should we need any more? We thank God, this is plain and explicit enough for us ; and one undisputed...

...Contrary to Acts x. 34, 35 : " 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.'' Contrary to experience; for JR &c., &c., had peace with God, no fear, no doubt, before they had that...

...eternal life — glory. honour and peace to every man that worketh good Romii. 6, 7. 10. " In every nation he that feareth God, and worketh righteousness, is accepted with him;" Acts x. 35. " Of obedience unto righteousness ;" Rom. vi. 16. " He that doth righteousness is righteous,...

...apply to those who have had no opportunity of hearing the Gospel; in this case we find, that " in every nation he that feareth God and worketh righteousness is accepted with him:" for as St. Paul says, " how can they believe in him of whom they have not heard f ?" Those Gentiles,...

...might have been given without Christ.' 9. " Of a truth, 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. For " God will render to every man according to his deeds : to them who by patient...

...tuentur — Walchius,) who thinks the words here import " no more than those of the Apostle, ' In every nation he that feareth GOD and " worketh righteousness, is accepted with him :' from which it must not be inferred " that the religion of nature, or any other is sufficient to...

...eternal life — glory, honour and peace to every man that worketh good Rom. ii. 6, 7. 10. " In every nation he that feareth God, and worketh righteousness, is accepted with him;" Acts x. 35. "Of obedience unto righteousness;" Rom. vi. 16. " He that doth righteousness is righteous,...

...passages with triumph, " thy prayers and thine alms are come up for a memorial before God ;" " in every nation he that feareth God, and worketh righteousness, is accepted with him." No man doubts the efficacy of righteous deeds, for without them he cannot be saved. But no man can...

...benevolence and Christian love ; he inculcated and believd that God is no respecter of persons, but in evry nation, " he that feareth God and worketh righteousness, is accepted with him." His charity extended to evry denomination of Christians, and embracd in its unlimited exercise, the...

...dor ie by the grace of God through his Holy Spirit. For Saint " Peter saith that, Acts x. " Of every nation, he that feareth „ God, and worketh righteousness, is accepted with him." And Paul also, Col. i. " We cease not to pray for you, t jjat you may walk worthy of the Lord, and...