 | Richard Graves - Bible - 1807 - 520 pages
...Candace queen of Ethiopia, studied the Scriptures ; others there were like the devout Cornelius, j~ " who feared God with all his " house, and gave much alms to the people, "and prayed to God always." Hence the preachers of Christianity almost everywhere instantly found hearers, who could understand... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - English literature - 1813 - 540 pages
...is to be referred ' to the glory of God." The tenor of Scripture, in short, is not that Cornelius ' feared God with all his house, and gave much alms to the people, and prayed to God alway' by a different sort of grace from that by which, after his conversion, he * worked out his salvation,'... | |
 | 1815 - 608 pages
...in Cesarea named Cornelius, a centurion of the band called the Italian band, 2. A religious man, who feared God with all his house, and gave much alms to the people; and praying to God always; 3. He saw evidently in a vision, about the ninth hour of the day, an angel of... | |
 | Richard Stack - Bible - 1815 - 328 pages
...Cornelius the centurion; who, by whatever name called, proselyte of the gate or enlightened Heathen, « was a devout man, one that feared God with all his house," (which is a part of his character wortby 6f gr<?at praise, as shewing an anxious zeal for the spiritual... | |
 | Noah Worcester, Henry Ware - 1819 - 504 pages
...is " the way, the truth, and the life ?" Ai. Cornelius, the centurion, was " a devout man, one who feared God with all his house, and gave much alms to the people, and prayed to God alway ;" and his " prayers and his alms came up for a memorial before God," prior to his knowledge... | |
 | 1819 - 402 pages
...is to be referred " to the glory of God." The tenor of Scripture, in short, is not that Cornelius " feared God with all his house, and gave much alms to the people, and prayed to God ai way" by a different sort of grace ft om that by which, after his conversion, he " worked out his... | |
 | Hector Davies Morgan - Calvinism - 1819 - 442 pages
...Israelite " indeed, in whom there was no guile d ;" and Cornelius, the centurion, " a devout " man, that feared God with all his house, " and gave much alms to the people al" ways, and whose prayers and whose alms " went up for a memorial before God e ." Among the worthies... | |
 | Thomas Adam - Theology - 1822 - 562 pages
...confession, " I abhor myself, and repent in dust and ashes," Job, xlii. 6. Cornelius was "a devout man, and one that feared God with all his house, and gave much alms to. the people, and prayed to God alway," Acts, x. 2. And what then ? Was this his righteousness in the sight of God ? No ; he was directed... | |
 | 1822 - 746 pages
...simplicity, which cannot fail to excite, in the truly religious mind, a desire to imitate every part of it ; he was " a devout man., one that feared God, with all his house, and prayed to God alway." Nothing can be more evident than that he had called the attention of his house... | |
 | Samuel Stennett - Baptists - 1824 - 520 pages
...But there is one striking instance we must pot forget to mention, and that Is of Cornelius, who as he feared God with all his house, and gave much alms to the people, so prayed to God alway, that is, at all proper seasons : and was actually praying in his house, that... | |
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who " feared God, with all his house, and gave much alms to the " people, and prayed to God alway. 
