 | John Howie - 1828 - 650 pages
...state, or experienced any thing of the free grace of God in Christ, will be made to acknowledge this, " that it is God that worketh in us both to will and to do of bis good pleasure," Phil. ii. 1.3. And yet I know it is objected, that it is highly dishonouring... | |
 | Hallifield Cosgayne O'Donnoghue - 1830 - 366 pages
...and aiding his endeavours, to work out his salvation with fear and trembling; yet must we confess, that " it is God that worketh in us both to will and to do of his good pleasure." (See particularly, Eph. ii. 1 — 12.) " It is the Holy Ghost, and no... | |
 | Edward Robinson - 1848 - 590 pages
...consciousness affirms it — and universal Christian experience confirms the aTerment of the apostle, that " it is God that worketh in us, both to will and to do of His good pleasure."3 There are causes immediate and ad intra, and there are others remote,... | |
 | William Van Mildert (bp. of Durham.) - 1832 - 552 pages
...considering ourselves by nature incapable of being actuated by such motives as these? Admit again, that " it is God that worketh " in us, both to will and to do of His good "pleasure1;" that without Him we can do nothing effectual to our salvation ; and... | |
 | Charlotte Elizabeth Tonna - 1839 - 598 pages
...can either of them be attained? Every tongue must be stopped, and troth alone shall be heard telling us that it is God that worketh in us both to will and to do, (Phil. ii. 13.) he it is that can sanctify us, bring us out of darkness, and make us meet for... | |
 | Charles Lawson (M.A.) - 1834 - 422 pages
...these mighty blessings ? Why do we delay to work out our own salvation with fear and trembling, knowing that it is God that worketh in us both to will and to do of his good pleasure ? How feebly do the energies of divine grace appear to influence our souls... | |
 | 1834 - 330 pages
...transforming power so as that we may indeed be favoured to know of a truth, from living heartfelt experience, that it is God that worketh in us both to will and to do of his good pleasure, that he may be in all things glorified. AN ADDRESS DELIVERED AT DEVONSHIRE... | |
 | Elias Hicks - 1834 - 244 pages
...agreeably to his own will and pleasure. And which agrees with the doctrine of the apostle, where he says, that it is God that worketh in us, both to will and to do, of his own good. pleasure. And again : " For as many as are led by the spirit of God, they are... | |
 | Richard Whately - 1834 - 402 pages
...reconciling the World unto Himself;" — that " in Him dwelleth all the Fulness of the Godhead, bodily ;" — that " it is God that worketh in us both to will and to do of his good pleasure ;" — that if we " keep Christ's saying, He dwelleth in us, and we in Him... | |
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Scripture ; that warrants us sufficiently, for it informs us that it is ' God that worketh in us, both to will and to do, of his good pleasure... 
