| William Paley - Sermons, English - 1815 - 552 pages
...operating, and we co-operating with him. " Work out your own salvation with fear and trembling;" and why ? " for it is God that worketh in us to will and to do, according to his good pleasure." He is not superseding our endeavours (the very contrary is implied... | |
| Thomas Scott - Calvinism - 1817 - 530 pages
...our own voluntary exertion.' Such an action is wholly the effect of our own voluntary exertion; but " it " is God that worketh in us to will and to do." The idea of God doing one part, and the creature another part, in the action of a voluntary agent,... | |
| Robert Burnside - Conduct of life - 1820 - 212 pages
...inquire, with heartfelt gratitude and joy now took leave. He had not, however, been gone more than * It is God that ' worketh in us to will and to do of his good pleasure.' Yet ' faith cometh by hearing;' and the ' Father will give the Holy Spirit to them... | |
| John Sargent - France - 1820 - 506 pages
...certain we have no reason from the mere contemplation of the operations of our own minds, to ascribe them to an extrinsic agent, because they arise from their proper causes, and arc directed to their proper ends. The truth or falsehood of pretences to the experience of divine... | |
| Joseph Jewell - Evangelicalism - 1821 - 104 pages
...the living substance : for I am well assured, if we are come to an establishment in the faith, that it is God that worketh in us to will and to do, we shall also be sure that he will work righteousness in us, and through us, and be taught to shun... | |
| Arminianism - 1824 - 920 pages
...will to good ; and if the will is ever inclined lo good, that is the result of " power from on high." It is GOD that worketh in us to will and to do. He gives the power of both, and supplies it to the end. So far we go with I <i. CHARMERS ; nay, we... | |
| Thomas Durant - 1822 - 298 pages
...THE SCRIPTURES TEACH US TO ASCRIBE EVERY THING GOOD IN MAN TO THE INFLUENCE OF THB JDIVINB ORACH. " It is God that worketh in us to will and to do."* This, so far from superseding the necessity of means, always supposes their existence. On miraculous... | |
| Samuel Stennett - Sower (Parable) - 1823 - 342 pages
...that, as it is most reasonable we should exert every power in the pursuit of heavenly blessings, so it is God that worketh in us to will and to do of his good pleasure;} and that it is by grace we are saved, through faith, and that not of ourselves, it... | |
| Thom Scott - Theology - 1824 - 896 pages
...in what is good, (and very active, and indefatigably diligent we ought to be in every good work,) " it is God that worketh " in us to will and to do, of his good pleasure." It is in respect of the same kind of inability, that God " cannot deny himself;" not... | |
| William Paley - Theology - 1823 - 382 pages
...and we co-operating with him. " Work out your own salvation with fear and trembling ;" and why ? " for it is God that worketh in us to will and to do according to his good pleasure." He is not superseding our endeavpurs (the very contrary is implied... | |
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