...no longer contended against the sovereignty of God's grace ; " they held their peace and glorified God, saying, then hath God also to the Gentiles granted repentance unto life." Let us now see, for a moment, whether those first Gentile converts were built upon the same foundation...

...stretched out for the salvation of the heathen, he would have '• held his |it-ace, and glorified God, saying, Then hath God also to the gentiles granted repentance unto life."* Ws.s Jonah afraid of his reputation as a prophet ? This, indeed, appears to have heen the principal...

...gift of the Holy Ghost At. x. 40. When they heard these things, they held their peace, and glorified is anti-christ that denieth the Father and the Son. Whosoever denieth the So At. xi. 18. And when " they" (" Paul and Barnabai") were come (to Antioch) and had gathered the church...

...t, that I could withstand God? 18 When they heard these things, they held their peace, and glorified God, saying, Then hath God also to the Gentiles granted repentance unto life. 19 IT Now they which were scattered 48 And he commanded them tobe hap. ahroad upon the persecution...

...this, are said to glorify God; " When the/ heard these things, they held their peace, and glorifified ƚ { ^ |Wh7 s 9Za wHh c א 7LLPN >7 2 m un]2 T \D 虏 6" E Acts 1 1:18. If they praised God for it, how muchmore should wo do it ourselves! But of that hereafter....

...GIFT TO THE GENTILES. ACTS, xi. 18. When they heard these things, they held their peace, and glorified God, saying, then hath God also to the Gentiles granted repentance unto life. THE gospel of life had been confined hitherto to the lost sheep of the house of Israel ; but, warned...

...brethren at Jerusalem, they no longer blamed what he had done, but " held their peace, and glorified God, saying, Then hath God also to the Gentiles granted repentance unto life." This abundance of miraculous gifts, which so many reasons rendered proper at the first appearance of...

...Cornelius and his family, who were, as it were the first fruits ^f the Gentiles, they all glorified God, saying ; Then hath God also to the Gentiles granted Repentance unto life, Act. 11. 18. And if they could rejoyce in the Conversion of the Gentiles which they knew would be with...

...glorified God ;" not indeed by shouting, " Then hath God given the Gentiles power to speak Arabic :" but by saying, " Then hath God also to the Gentiles granted repentance unto life," according to the fulness of the Christian dispensation. That this dispensation of the Holy Ghost, this...

...also received the word of God ;"-(- and after they had heard St. Peter's defence, " they glorified God, saying, Then hath God also to the Gentiles granted repentance unto life.":): I here take leave of my reader for the present, having completed that portion of my little work which...