...consciousness affirms it — and universal Christian experience confirms the averment of the apostle, that " it is God that worketh in us, both to will and to do of His good pleasure.'" There are causes immediate and ad intra, and there are others remote,...

...cannot either do or merit any thing of ourselves, that whatever good there is in us comes from God, and that it is " God that worketh in us both to will and to accomplish according to His good pleasure" (Phil. ii. 1 3) ; — for this truth being taught us...

...consciousness affirms it — and universal Christian experience confirms the averment of the apostle, that " it is God that worketh in us, both to will and to do of His good pleasure.'" There are causes immediate and ad intra, and there are others remote,...

...consciousness affirms it — and universal Christian experience confirms the averment of the apostle, that " it is God that worketh in us, both to will and to do of His good pleasure."' There are causes immediate and ad intra, and there are others remote,...

...can either of them be attained ? Every tongue must be stopped, and truth 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...

...ignorant, ' the Spirit helpeth our infirmities' (ver. 26). In the very same breath in which he tells us that ' it is God that worketh in us both to will and to do,' he bids us ' work out our own salvation with fear and trembling' (Phil. ii. 12, 13). And so...

...not sufficient of ourselves to ' think anything as of ourselves, but our sufficiency is of God ;' and that ' it is God that worketh in us both to will and to do of ' his good pleasure' (Rom. viii. 26. 1 Cor. xii. 3. 2 Cor. iii. 5. E ;> Pbil. ii. 13.). These...

...of the ministry — in the edifying of the body of Christ, let us be diligent and assiduous, knowing that " it is God that worketh in us, both to will and to do of his good pleasure." Let us not be content with the mere mechanical routine of public duties,...

...perseverance, labouring as if every thing depended upon ourselves, yet supported and consoled by the knowledge that ' it is God that worketh in us, both to will and to do of his good pleasure.' " Speak wisely ; who can tell The power of a word ? A sinner it may save...

...if our working could work it out, though at the same time our working is required ; for it is added that it is God that worketh in us both to will and to do. Nor need we stop to explain how it is that God requires us to work as if we had much in our...