...the Father of lights." Many an invalid has to return as he came, having feelingly learnt that it is not of him that willeth, or of him that runneth, but of God, who alone holds in His power life, and breath, and all things. The pool of Bethesda was eminently one...

...it a deep and grateful consciousness that this sense is none of our own getting and making. "It is not of him that willeth or of him that runneth, but of God that showeth mercy." As moral agents, for whom alone exist all the predicaments of merit and demerit,...

...they taught that we have no sufficiency of ourselves, oven to think a good thought, and that ' it is not of him that willeth, or of him that runneth, but of God who sheweth mercy,' yet they plainly call upon sinners (and that before they had given evident signs...

...His own name's sake. I niver did or said anything to desarve it, or any part of it, for ' It isn't of him that willeth, or of him that runneth, but of God that showeth marcy." "Oh, how delightful that truth is!" said Mr. Vansproch. "Alas ! how long I stumbled...

...it a deep and grateful consciousness that this sense is none of our own getting and making. " It is not of him that willeth or of him that runneth, but of God that showeth mercy." As moral agents, for whom alone exist all the predicaments of merit and demerit,...

...clothed with His imputed righteousness, and not with my own filthy rays. One thing I know, " It is not of him that willeth, or of him that runneth, but of God that showeth mercy." I, like you, want the word spoken with almighty power : man's power is of no avail....

...outward teaching of the Word, are inwardly taught and drawn of God. The Apostle teaches that salvation is not of him that willeth or of him that runneth, but of God who showeth mercy. The Lutheran doctrine banishes, and is intended to banish, all sovereignty in the...

...suppose merit in them. Grace does not follow works : for then grace would be no more grace. Election is not of him that willeth, or of him that runneth, but of God who showeth mercy. For we are saved freely by grace through faith, and that not of ourselves ; it is...

...abundantly beyond all that we ask or think, and calls things that are not as though they were. ' It is not of him that willeth or of him that runneth, but of God 1 Rom., v, 12-21. that showeth mercy.' ' As moral agents, for whom alone exist all the predicaments...

...So then — In more modern style this verse might be thus worded : So then the showing of mercy is not of him that willeth or of him that runneth, but of God. On which note, 1, The showing mercy includes not only the particular act of mercy-showing, but the...