| Thomas Jackson - 1842 - 816 páginas
...: if for the sake of God, he will recompense you. I am of Gamaliel's mind : if this counsel or work be of men, it will come to naught.' ' But if it be of God,' I proceeded, ' ye cannot overthrow it ; lest, haply, ye be found to fight against God. Therefore, follow... | |
| William Evans, Thomas Evans - 1843 - 496 páginas
...trouble. For, as that learned doctor in the Jewish law did well observe, ' if this counsel or this work be of men, it will come to naught ; but if it be of God, ye cannot overthrow it :' — so I say to you in our case. " 6. And lastly, be pleased to consider, what... | |
| Jean Henri Merle d'Aubigné - 1844 - 610 páginas
...said the venerable Prelate, addressing Luther, " let me hear your own remedy for the evil." LWTHER was silent for an instant. "My lord, I know of none...word of Gamaliel : ' if 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... | |
| Jules Michelet - 1846 - 320 páginas
...to |. be given is that of Gamaliel in the Acts of the Apostles, " If ' this counsel, or this work, be of men, it will come to naught; but if it be of God, ye cannot overthrow it." Shortly after, the official of Treves called on Luther at his hostelry with the... | |
| 1847 - 440 páginas
...that given by Gamaliel, as St. Luke testifies, Acts, chap. v. : " For if this counsel or this work be of men, it will come to naught; but if it be of God, ye cannot overthrow it." Not long afterward the Chancellor of the Archbishop of Treves came to him in... | |
| 1847 - 428 páginas
...and yet possessed of a spirit of deference to Divine power, to say, " if this counsel or this work be of men, it will come to naught, but if it be of God ye cannot overthrow it." But the tempest is past — reason and truth have gained their rightful dominion... | |
| Hiram Mattison - 1848 - 206 páginas
...itself. It was well said by one of old, in reference to Christianity, " If this counsel, or this work, be of men, it will come to naught : but if it be of God, ye cannot overthrow it." But if Arianism be true, the counsel and truth of God have come to naught, while... | |
| Orestes Augustus Brownson - 1852 - 596 páginas
...punished St. Peter and the Apostles for preaching the Church of Christ, ' If this counsel or this work be of men, it will come to naught : but if it be of God, you cannot overthrow it.* " Through what dangers, what persecutions, has not the Catholic Church passed... | |
| Thomas Whittemore - 1854 - 442 páginas
...universal salvation will still prevail,' &c. To which 1 reply, ' If this council, or this work, be of man, it will come to naught ; but, if it be of God, ye cannot overthrow it.' " A few observations on that obscene poem, which you had the indecency not only... | |
| James Caughey, Daniel Wise - 1855 - 422 páginas
...And now I say unto you, Refrain from these men, and let them alone : for if this counsel or this work be of men, it will come to naught : but if it be of...God, ye cannot overthrow it ; lest haply ye be found to fight against God ; ' — and he descanted very fully upon the work of the Apostle, and the admirable... | |
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