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 Christian Observer - Page 511815Full view - About this book
| 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... | |
| 1830 - 890 pages
...at rest, Luther observed, " I am unable to say ; may be, Gamaliel's saying shall come to pass ; for if this work be of men, it will come to nought, but, if it be of God, no man shall overthrow it." Thus ended the last discoursings with the reformer. Three hours afterwards,... | |
| Alexander Allan - Covenant theology - 1820 - 264 pages
...support it ? 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,... | |
| Charles Knight - 1820 - 636 pages
...cautioned them, saying, " Refrain from these men, and let them alone ; for if this work be of umn, it will come to nought ; but if it be of God, ye cannot over throw it."!) » Luke TXIT. K-, 4- Actsii.il. i *ri. it. Hi. -. A<:t» v.3tv39. The Christians... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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 afterwards,... | |
| 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, ch.... | |
| George Fox - Society of Friends - 1821 - 420 pages
...convinced them by arguments, as Acts 5. " Let them alone," said he, " 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." So, to Gamaliel the council... | |
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