...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...

...cold ; when " the declensions 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...

...works), which God hath before ordained that we should walk in them." And again, in another Epistle: "It is God that worketh in us to will and to do fully manifested in Christ, and is derived unto us from that inexhaustible fulness of which we have...

...cold ; when " the declensions 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...

...my dependance on God. I have, I am conscious, placed too much dependance upon my own exertions. But it is God, that worketh in us to will and to do well. You advise me to spend much time in meditation and prayer, and assure me, that I shall be enlightened....

...from the mere contemplation of the operations of our own minds* to ascribe them to an extrinsicagent, because they arise from their proper causes, and are...Scripture ; that warrants us sufficiently, — for it informs us that it is " God that worketh in us, both to will and to do, of his good pleasure;" which...

...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...

...Whitehead's Life. 4 work out " his own salvation with fear and trembling ;" but not as knowing that " it is God that worketh in us to will and to do of his good pleasure." He had not, in this respect, learned " to be nothing," that he might "possess all things."...

...given by the religion of Christ to all who are seeking the moral renovation of their nature ; because " it is God that worketh in us to will and to do of his good pleasure." 6. When such is the moral nature of Christianitv, how obvious is it that its tendency...

...proper action.' ' How is this V asked the officer. ' The apostle assures us,' replied Henry, ' that " it is God that worketh in us, to will and to do of his good pleasure," and all our sufficiency is of him ; and to insure this divine assistance we must seek...