...for one Simon, whose surname is Peter, he shall teU tlice what thou oughtest to do :" and, at ver. 33, *' We are all here present before God, to hear all things that are commanded thee of God." So that though even in his gentilism, he was accepted fqr his present state ; yet, if he had continued...

...the beginning of worship, that you may be able to say with Cornelius, Acts x. S3. " Now we are alt here present before God, to hear all things that are commanded thee of God." Think not that you are in time it you win to the lecture or sermon, though you miss the prayers that...

...preached, or meditated on. How seldom does he attend the word, as that congregation did — " Behold we are all here present before God to hear all things that are commanded thee of God." This preparation of heart was from the Lord. He disposed Cornelius and his family to receive the word...

...; who neither walk according to your rule of law nor gospel, as you call it. And Cornelius said, " we are all here present before God, to hear all things that are commanded unto thee of God." So we see here Cornelius had a belief of the living God, though he had no written...

...your attendance here, seem to say unto us, what Cornelius expressed in words; "Now therefore are we all here present before God, to hear all things that are commanded thee of God."—We have already alluded to some of those things, which are commanded us of God, and in which...

...and profitable, if our hearts met in it as one, so that we could say of our hearing the word, as he, Acts x. 33. We are all here present before God, to hear all things that are commanded of God? And if our prayers ascended up as one pillar of incense to the throne of grace^ if they besieged...

...from many miles of the country around, waiting, like Cornelius and his friends, and seeming to say, " we are all here present before God, to hear all things that are commanded thee of God;" with the additional consideration, that thoir immortal well-being might, in some degree, depend on...

...establishment in the faith, as it was to his, if you could but say with him, " Now therefore are we all here present before God to hear all things that are commanded thee of God ;" x. 33. Let us attend ; with this belief, that to us is the word of this salvation sent, and that...

...knew, and therefore he held his peace, when God shewed himself to be a consuming fire. The Hebrew word that is here rendered peace, signifies the quietness...shall declare to be his will. We are willing to hear, that we may do ; that we may obey sincerely and universally the good pleasure of our God, knowing that...

...therefore we see God's messenger in his pulpit, our eye looks at him, as if it said with Cornelius, " We are all here present before God, to hear all things that are commanded thee of God," Acts x. 33. Whence cannot but follow, together with an awful disposition of mind, a reverent deportment...