 | Hugh Gaston - Bible - 1807 - 550 pages
...people, and prayed to God alway. Acts x. 3. He saw an angel coming unto him, saying unto him, Ver. 4. Cornelius, thy prayers and thine alms are come up for a memorial before God. See Prov. xxi. 13. CLXXIII. Prayer must be frequent, fervent and importunate. Ps. v. 3. My voice shalt... | |
 | Thomas Scott - Religion - 1808 - 584 pages
...his " house, gave much alms to the people, and " prayed to God alway :" and when the angel said, " Thy prayers and thine alms are come up " for a memorial before God." Yet Peter was sent to " tell him words, whereby he and his " house might be saved." — Perhaps there... | |
 | Joseph Hall (bp. of Norwich.) - 1808 - 582 pages
...which he had received, feared God ; and had wrought his family to an orderly and religious course. X. 4 Thy prayers and thine alms are come up for a memorial before God. Thy prayers, which thou hast made unto God, proceeding from such weak and imperfect (though true) faith,... | |
 | James Macknight - Bible - 1809 - 544 pages
...think, is plain from Acts x. * compared with verse 31. In the former of these passages, the ungel says to Cornelius, " Thy prayers and thine alms are come up for a memorial before God;" in the latter, Cornelius, rehearsing the angel's words to Peter, delivers them thus : " Thy prayer... | |
 | Mary Waring - Experience (Religion) - 1809 - 576 pages
...which caused me sore conflict. 19. In my solitary walk to visit the poor, the address of the angel to Cornelius, " Thy prayers " and thine alms are come up for a memorial before " God," sweetly impressed my mind ; not that I believed, it applicable to myself, well knowing how improperly... | |
 | John Wesley - Methodism - 1809 - 512 pages
...that which is written of one who could not then believe, for he had not so much as heard the gospel : Cornelius, thy prayers and thine alms are come up for a memorial before God. Thursday 26, I shewed, concerning the Holy Scriptures, 1. That to search, fe read and hear them, is... | |
 | Ezekiel Hopkins (bp. of Derry.) - 1809 - 648 pages
...most glorious and celestial place : Hear thou in -heaven*: Hence we have that expression, Acts x. 4. Thy prayers and thine alms are come up for a memorial before God. Certainly, if our prayers should not be heard till they come to heaven, they are so weak and faint,... | |
 | Noah Worcester - Holy Spirit - 1810 - 222 pages
...the whole world, there shall also this, that this woman hath done, be told for a memorial of her." *' Thy prayers and thine alms are come up. for a memorial before God." " And whosoever will not receive you, nor hear you, shake off the dust from under your feet, as a testimony... | |
 | Mrs. Trimmer (Sarah) - 1810 - 456 pages
...Cornelius ; And when he looked on him, he was afraid, and said, What is it, LoR» ? And he said unto 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. He Ipdgeth with one Simon... | |
 | First Unitarian Society. Philadelphia - Unitarianism - 1810 - 506 pages
...that I will pray the Father for you ; for the Father himself loveth you.' — John xvi. 26, 27. ' Thv prayers and thine alms are come up for a memorial before God.' ' Of a truth I perceive that God is no respecter of persons; but in every nation he who feareth him,... | |
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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. 
