...invocation of saints and angels is forbidden. Acts x. 26. ' stand up ; I myself also am a man.' xiv. 15. 'sirs, why do ye these things ? we also are men of like passions with you — .' Col. ii. 1 8. ' let no man beguile you of your reward in a voluntary* humility and worshipping...

...The latter, who had hitherto served dumb idols, or " worshipped he knew not what," might now well " turn from these vanities unto the living God, who made heaven and earth, the sea, and all things that are therein." All the circumstances, indeed, of novelty, grandeur, ocular...

...sacrifice to them, they rent heir clothes, and ran in among them, crying out, " Why do ye these :hings ? We also are men of like passions with you, and preach unto you :hat ye should turn from these vanities to serve the living God." And when St. John fell down at the...

...arrests their impious plaudits, and rejects their idolatrous adulations, crying out with St. Paul — ' Sirs ! why do ye these things ? we also are men of...should turn from these vanities unto the living God.' (Acts xiv. 13, 15.) We are neither the way, the truth, nor the life: B ut we point to you that way,...

...sang a hymn ; I then offered up a short prayer, and afterwards addressed the people from Acts xiv. 15; "And preach unto you, that ye should turn from these vanities unto the living God, which made heaven and earth, and the sea, and all things that are therein." The multitude collected...

...word to the end of the world ;' Psal. xix. 1 — 4, &c. So Job. xxxvii. xxxviii. xxxix. throughout. ' God who made heaven and earth, and the sea, and all things that are therein, suffered in times past all nations to walk in their own ways ; yet he left not himself without witness,...

...When Paul and Barabas heard of it, they rent their clothes and ran in among the people, crying out — Sirs, why do ye these things ? We also are men of like passions with yourselves and preach unto you, that you turn from these vanities to the living God. And so also in...

...We preach unto JTOU,' said he to the Lycaonians, ' that ye should turn from these vanities, to serve the living God, who made heaven and earth, and the sea, and all things therein ; who even when hi: suffered all nations to walk in their own ways, left not himself without...

...ages from the foundation of the world in the works of his providence : so Acts xiv. 15 — 17. ' We preach unto you, that ye should turn from these vanities, unto the living God, which made heaven and earth, and the sea, and all things that are therein : who in times past, suffered...

...against hero- worship and idolatry, from the principles of natural religion, and exhorted the people to turn from these vanities unto the living God, who made heaven and earth, the sea, all things that are therein. * 5/7rep^oAoyoe- " Vulgar prater." At Thessalonica Paul's manner...