...the grace of God ; and with trembling, lest we should forget that of ourselves we can do nothing, but that it is " God who worketh in us both to will and to do of his good pleasure ;" and to him let all the glory be ascribed. HINTS FOB THE FORMATION OF...

...us. We mnst "work out (our) own salvation with fear and trembling," at the same time acknowledging that " it is God who worketh in (us) both to will and to do of His good pleasure." The attributes of God are one as the Divine person is one. There is no...

...but this fear is allayed by the certainty given him by the same Scripture, that God is faithful, and that it is God " who worketh in us both to will and to do, of his good pleasure*."— The system of Popish justification is, I repeat to you, in the words...

...and means are necessary for this purpose. We must ask, seek, knock. The very passage which declares, that " it is God who worketh in us, both to will and to do, of his good pleasure," commands us to " work out our ovm, salvation." Your last question is,...

...and means are necessary for this purpose. We must ask, seek, knock. The very passage which declares, that " it is God who worketh in us, both to will and to do, of his good pleasure," commands us to " work out our own salvation." Your last question is,...

...Work out our salvation with fear and trembling," we are, at the same time, cheered with the assurance that " it is God who worketh in us both to will and to do of His own good pleasure." If we are commanded to " fight" manfully against our spiritual adversaries,...

...none of all the children of men is able to " bring a clean thing out of an unclean :" and, in a word, that " it is God who worketh in us, both to will and to do of his good pleasure." But it is generally his pleasure to work by his creatures ; to help man...

...taken is John v. 40. We do not, of course, object to the sentiment which Mr. Noel means to convey, that' it is God who worketh in us both ' to will and to do,' but to the language employed, that repentance is a work which God must accomplish fur us. We...

...our own salvation," it is immediately added, as a check to pride and an encouragement to exertion, that "it is God " who worketh in us both to will and to do of " his good pleasure." Thus we are instructed equally to avoid self-sufficiency and spiritual...

...clearly stated in Scripture, not indeed by the popular word grace, but by the positive declaration that it is God who " worketh in us both to will and to do of his good pleasure," and in reality he thus worketh in us by the agency of various causes,...