...true, yet this abuse of it gave it the same bad effect as if it had been false. The Scriptures assure us that " It is God that worketh in us both to will and to do, of his good pleasure," but they use this truth not as an excuse for us to be idle, but as an...

...trembling," layiug a somewhat arch emphasis on the word own, and totally omitting the consolatory addition that " it is God that worketh in us both to will and to do, of his good pleasure." The same persons in speaking of those to whom " all things work together...

...them to an extrinsic agent, because they arise from their proper causes, and are directed 38 to Iheir proper ends. The truth or falsehood of pretences to...that it is ' God that Worketh in us both to will and to do, of his good pleasure ;' which passage, while it asserts the reality of God's influence, points...

...impossible. But the Apostle builds upon a better foundation than the weakness of mortality. He tells us that " it is God that worketh in us both to will and to do"—and with God all things are possible, and through him we are able to do all things. Moses...

...in a great measure on the habitual rectitude and government of the will; and an apostle hath assured us, " that it is God that worketh in us both to will and to do of his own good pleasure." He, therefore, who can say, " My heart is fixed, O God, my heart is...

...impossible. But the Apostle builds upon a better foundation than the weakness of mortality. He tells us that " it is God that worketh in us both to will and to do"—and with God all things are possible, and through him we are able to do all things. Moses...

...or experienced any thing of the free gra,v of a God in Christ, will be made to acknowledge this, ' That it is God that worketh in us both to will and to do of his good pleasure,' Phil. ii. 13. And yet I know it is objected, That it is highly dishonouring...

...salvation to free, sovereign grace. It maintains that we must be made wiling in a day of divine power; that it is God that worketh in us both to will and to do. That God hath mercy on whom he will have mercy, and w.hom he will he hardeneth. But when we...

...impossible. But the Apostle builds upon a better foundation than the weakness of mortality. He tells us that " it is God that worketh in us both to will and to do" — and with God all things are possible, and through him we are able to do all things. Moses...

...short comings and want of earnest-zeal, and Jo resolve to do better : but we are not less to remember that it is God that worketh in us both .to will and to do of his gos-d pleasure, — worketh in us as a denomination, and maketh us grow in one body, even...