 | Rowland Hill - 1824 - 380 pages
...work out our own salvation, with fear and trembling ?" Mai. Yes, but is it not next directly said; "for it is God that worketh in us, to will and to do, of his good pleasure?" what does our attempting to work signify, till it is his good pleasure that we should... | |
 | Samuel Stennett - Baptists - 1824 - 520 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 b, and that it is by grace we are saved, through faith, and that not of ourselves, it... | |
 | John Sargent - Missions - 1824 - 366 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 are directed 38 to Iheir proper ends. The truth or falsehood of pretences to the experience of divine agency, must... | |
 | Benjamin Beddome - Sermons - 1824 - 366 pages
...and teach us to go. Our return to God is free and voluntary, but we act only by being acted upon. " It is God that worketh in us to will and to do of his good pleasure," and, " thou, Lord, hast wrought all our works in us." It is he that both seeks and... | |
 | Rowland Hill - Christian life - 1825 - 316 pages
...work out our own salvation, with fear and trembling." Mal. Yes; but is it not next directly said ; " for it is God that worketh in us, to will, and to do, of his own good pleasure ?" what does our attempting to work signify, till it is his good pleasure that we... | |
 | 1843 - 1028 pages
...salvation with fear and trembling" an equally powerful demand upon our obedience, as the assurance that "it is God that worketh in us to will and to do" has upon our frith? That there are difficulties connected with these subjects, it would be superlative... | |
 | Susan Huntington - Bible - 1826 - 422 pages
...cold; when "the declension's of Christianity" may be produced as "a sad argument of its truth." But it is God that worketh in us to will and to do of his good pleasure; and to him the work is as easy now as at any other period. Were the whole world around... | |
 | 1852 - 1174 pages
...is God that moves us by his Spirit working in Us, " according to the power that worketh in us.'1 " It is God that worketh in us to •will and to do of his own good pleasure." And as the prophet saith, " O Lord, thou wilt ordain peace for us, for thou also... | |
 | Edward Reynolds (bp. of Norwich.) - 1826 - 944 pages
...conversion, within the power or reach of their own will ; yet still this will be scripture, " That it is God that worketh in us to will and to do of his own good pleasure :" (Phil. ii. 13) that it is " God who maketh us to differ;" (1 Cor. iv. 7) that... | |
 | Daniel Wilson - 1827 - 440 pages
..." by one man sin entered into the world," that we " are all by nature children of wrath," and that it is " God that worketh in us to will and to do of his good pleasure ?" What is the main summary of the whole scheme of revelation, but that " by grace are... | |
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That warrants us sufficiently, for " it is God that worketh in us to will and to do of his good pleasure... 
