| John Wesley - Methodism - 1829 - 520 pages
...also " God is well pleased." Thus the angel declares to Cornelius, fasting and praying in his house, " Thy prayers and thine alms are come up for a memorial before God." (Acts x. 4, &c.) And thus God himself expressly and largely declares : " Is not this the fast that... | |
| John Fuller - 1829 - 448 pages
...to his works V And the case of Cornelius is particularly striking where the angel said unto him, " thy prayers and thine alms are come up for a memorial before God2." These statements, with innumerable others with which the Scriptures abound, shew to the most... | |
| Jonathan Edwards - Religion - 1830 - 612 pages
...gave much alms to the people, and prayed to God alway. And an angel appeared to him, and said to him, Thy prayers and thine alms are come up for a memorial before God ; and now send men to Joppa, and call for one Simon, whose surname is Peter," &c. Acts x. at the beginning.... | |
| Jonathan Edwards - Religion - 1830 - 610 pages
...gave much alms to the people, and prayed to God alway. And an angel appeared to him, and said to him, Thy prayers and thine alms are come up for a memorial before God ; and now send men to Joppa, and call for one Simon, whose surname is Peter," &c. Acts x. at the beginning.... | |
| Isaac Barrow - Theology - 1830 - 606 pages
...recompense ; and in effect to hear that from God, Acts x. 4. which by him was returned to good Cornelius, Thy prayers and thine alms are come up for a memorial before God. 5. The conscionable practice of these duties doth plainly spring from those good dispositions of mind... | |
| John Brewster - Bible - 1830 - 602 pages
...who think outward works a sufficient mark of their religion, and quote these 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... | |
| Arthur S. P. Woodhouse, Douglas Bush - 1970 - 416 pages
...deleted, replaced by life (Facs. 446, 448). 5-8 Thy Works ... Folloni' d thee. Keightley compared: 'Thy prayers and thine alms are come up for a memorial before God' (Acts io. 4); and 'Blessed are the dead which die in the Lord . . . they may rest from their labours... | |
| Roland Mushat Frye - Bibles - 1978 - 644 pages
...Cornelius. 4 And when he looked on him, he was afraid, and said, What is it, Lord? And he said unto him, Thy prayers and thine alms are come up for a memorial before God. 5 And now send men to Joppa, and call for one Simon, whose surname is Peter: 6 He lodgeth with one... | |
| Philip Schaff - Religion - 1980 - 600 pages
...Cornelius. And when he looked on him, he was afraid, and said, What is it, Lord? And he said unto him, Thy prayers and thine alms are come up for a memorial before God." THIS man is not a Jew, nor of those under the Law, but he had already forestalled our manner of life.*... | |
| John R. Rice - Religion - 2000 - 568 pages
...Cornelius. 4 And when he looked on him, he was afraid, and said, What is it, Lord? And he said unto him, Thy prayers and thine alms are come up for a memorial before God. 5 And now send men to Joppa, and call for one Simon, whose surname is Peter: 6 He lodgeth with one... | |
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