Accepted With Almighty GOD
"God is no respecter of persons: But in every nation he that feareth God and worketh righteousness, is accepted with Him." — Acts 10:34, 35 [KJV] It is a common, artful device of the adversary to insinuate, "one part of scripture opposes and contradicts another." Hereby he aims to distress the minds, weaken the confidence of disciples, and to render the doctrines of grace of no esteem. The unlearned and unstable in the truths of free grace salvation, "wrest this, as they do also other texts of scripture, to their own destruction." It was farthest from St. Peter to make this declaration, to subvert the fundamental truths of the gospel, and the one only way of salvation taught by himself; namely, by "election, according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, through the sanctification of the Spirit unto obedience, and sprinkling of the blood of Jesus Christ." — 1 Peter 1:2 . But he now perceived of a truth that this blessing came eq