 | Salem Town - Freemasonry - 1818 - 302 pages
...verified that wise remark of Gamaliel, a doctor of the Jewish law ; " If this council, or this work, be of men, it will come to nought, but if it be of God, ye cannot overthrow it." Brethren, the design of this address, was said, merely to present the outlines... | |
 | 1818 - 806 pages
...institutions, must rest upon their accordance with the intentions of Heaven. " If this counsel or this work be of men, it will come to nought ; but if it be of God, ye cannot overthrow it." This is the ground every ingenuous mind must occupy ; for it is here the materials... | |
 | 1829 - 828 pages
...sneer, which Mr. Towgood casts at the Apostle's precepts, to notice his further remarks on this subject. We acknowledge, Sir, your goodness in bringing down...ceremony. There are some previous questions, which I could wish to see answered, before we enter thoroughly into the grand debate : — as, whether you... | |
 | Alexander Allan - Covenant theology - 1820 - 264 pages
...What Gamaliel said to the Jewish council, is truly applicable to the present case : " If this work be of men it will come to nought ; but if " it be of God, ye cannot overthrow it."* It is true, the opposition made to it is great and formidable, and the steady... | |
 | Trials - 1820 - 704 pages
...sensible advice : " Refrain from these men, and let them alone : for, if this counsel, or this work, be of men, it will come to nought; but, if it be of God, ye cannot overthrow it, lest haply ye be found even to fight against God." • The Jewish magistrates,... | |
 | Jedidiah Morse, Elijah Parish - New England - 1820 - 332 pages
...in letters of gold: "Refrain from these men, and let them alone; for if this counsel or this work be of men, it -Will come to nought; but if it be of Got/, ye cannot overthrow it; lent hajily ye be found even to fight against God."* This divine maxim... | |
 | 492 pages
...hitherto so fully proved the justness, <jf Gamaliel's observation, " If this counsel, or this worjt, " be of men, it will come to nought ; but if it be of " GOJ>, ye cannot overthrow it, " that we may rest in confident assurance of the ultimate triumph of... | |
 | Abraham John Valpy - Great Britain - 1822 - 580 pages
...from these men, and let them alone: for if this counsel or this work (the Christian Revelation) be of men, it will come to nought: but if it be of GOD, ye cannot overthrow it: lest haply yc be found even to fight against God." — Acts of the Apottlet,... | |
 | Congregational churches - 1850 - 444 pages
...Gamaliel's counsel : " Refrain from these men anc let them alone ; for if this counsel or this work be of men, it will come to nought ; but if it be of God ye cannot overthrow it; lest haply ye be found even to fight against God." Mikha conversed with him... | |
 | Jared Sparks, Francis William Pitt Greenwood - Unitarianism - 1822 - 366 pages
...the Christian taith. Refrain from these men, and let them alone; for if this counsel or this work be of men, it will come to nought; but if it be of God, ye cannot overt/trow it. Acts v. 38, 39. Such was the wise counsel of Gamaliel, and it is one object... | |
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Refrain from these men, and let them alone: for if this counsel or this work be of men, it will come to nought: But if it be of God, ye cannot overthrow it; lest haply ye be found even to fight against God. 
