| Alexander M'Leod - 1813 - 166 páginas
...righteousness and true holiness. fej Aets 11. IS. When they heard these things, they held their peaee, and glorified God, saying, Then hath God also to the Gentiles granted repentanee unto life. 1 John 3. 9. Whosoever is born of God, doth not eommit sin : for his seed remaineth... | |
| American Baptist Foreign Mission Society - 1814 - 500 páginas
...Could our Christian friends hear them, I think they would join with the disciples at Jerusalem who glorified God, saying, then hath God also to the Gentiles granted repentance unto life. The prospect among the inquirers is very encouraging. They arc increasing in number and seriousness.... | |
| Nathaniel Lardner - 1815 - 616 páginas
...that he did unto us, who believed on the Lord Jesus Christ ; what was I that I could withstand God ? When they heard these things, they held their peace,...also to the Gentiles granted repentance unto life.". A most just conclusion certainly from such premises. In Acts xv. is the same argument or reasoning... | |
| Nathaniel Lardner - 1815 - 644 páginas
...them an account of the transaction from the beginning, and all were satisfied. " When they heard those things, they held their peace, and glorified God,...also to the Gentiles granted repentance unto life." An opinion has obtained among Christians in late ages, that Cornelius was a proselyte of the gate.... | |
| Richard Stack - 1815 - 328 páginas
...candour; «When they heard these things, they held their peace } " (desisted from all further censure) « and glorified God, saying, then hath God Also to the Gentiles granted repentance unto Jifc>'> SO I have but one observation to make upon this passage. The brethren here spoken of were highly... | |
| David Collyer - 1815 - 368 páginas
...unto the Jews only ; but Peter, at his return to Jerusalem, relating the history of Cornelius, they glorified God, saying, Then hath God also to the Gentiles granted repentance unto life3. This was done about seven years after Christ's ascension into heaven. Next we have an account... | |
| David Brainerd, John Wesley, Jonathan Edwards - 1815 - 316 páginas
...refreshed with seeing the Indians worship God in that devout and solemn manner, and could' not but glorify God, saying, "Then hath God also to the Gentiles granted repentance unto life." Oct. 28. I discoursed from Matt. xxii. Jt— 13: I was enabled to adapt my discourse to the capacities... | |
| Hector Davies Morgan - 1816 - 204 páginas
...opposition of them " that were of the circumcision," chap. xi. 2. and even these, on Peter's explanation, held their peace and glorified God, saying, Then hath...also to the Gentiles granted repentance unto life. See Potter's Discourse, p. 234 — 238. Ibid. 1. 27- The presbyters of Jerusalem.'] Potter's Discourse,... | |
| John Mitchell Mason - 1816 - 418 páginas
...his grace. " They held their peace" — they had no more fault to find, nor objections to make ; " and glorified God, saying, then hath God also to the Gentiles granted repentance unto life." v. 18. Why should it not be so still ? Why should not such proof of Christian character in others,... | |
| William Jones - 1816 - 500 páginas
...said, " they held their peace and * Matt. XYI. is. 4O History of the Christian Church. • . [cu. u glorified God, saying, then hath God also to the Gentiles granted repentance unto life."* ... When Saul of Tarsus was called by divine grace to the knowledge of the truth, he, at the same time,... | |
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