...or experienced any thing of the free grace of a God in Christ, will be made to acknowledge this, l 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...

...in the faith. In reference to good works, or even the disposition to perform them, we are assured, that " it is God that worketh in us both to will and to do :" and in reference to good words, we are distinctly taught, that " we cannot even say (that...

...effect, to ascribe the salvation of man to himself, and to contradict the testimony of the Holy Spirit, that it is " God that worketh in us both to will and to do, of his good pleasure." Or, the argument may be stated in a somewhat different manner. Since...

...operations of our minds to an extrinsic agent, because they arise from their proper causes, and are directed to their proper ends. The truth or falsehood...scripture. That warrants us sufficiently, for " it is God that worketh in us to will and to do of his good pleasure," which passage, while it asserts...

...which command us to "work out our own salvation with fear and trembling," and at the same time tells us that " it is God that worketh in us both to will and to do of his good pleasure."* * Phil. u. 12, 13. When we hear Jehovah himself thus addressing the Jews,...

...blessed experience ! But whilst engaged to work out our own salvation, how consoling is the thought that it is God that worketh in us both to will and to do of his good pleasure ! As we are given up to the workings of this almighty power, to mind the...

...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 ; '...

...we are to strive industriously with a holy anxiety, until our salvation be complete; and the fact, that " it is God that worketh in us both to will and to do of his own good pleasure," is declared as a reason and encouragement to our industry, and not...

...therein revealed, or look to the Holy Spirit, to mark and learn what they peruse. It all COMES TO THIS, that it is God that worketh in us both to will and to do, he gives first the enquiring heart, and then opens the understanding. Had it been an axiom acknowledged,...

...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. 13. And yet I know it is objected, thit it is highly dishonouring...