...trembling,' (¿. e. with anxious vigilance) not because we are left to our ourselves, but because ' it is God that worketh in us, to will and to do, of His good pleasure.' Again, suppose one set of persons to maintain that the Church's Traditions are of equal...

...and trembling,' (ie with anxious vigilance) not because we are left to our ourselves, but because ' it is God that worketh in us, to will and to do, of H is good pleasure.' Again, suppose one set of persons to maintain that the Church's Traditions are...

...we have no reason, from the mere contemplation of the operations of our own minds, to ascribe them an extrinsic agent, because they arise from their...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...

...his own soul ; it therefore follows that if there be a change within, it must be traced up to God ; " for it is God that worketh in us, to will and to do of his good pleasure." III. Consider the Psalmist's supporting conclusion, " Truly God is good to Israel."...

...our love to him, who first loved us, by working out our own salvation with fear and trembling, since it is God that worketh in us to will and to do of his good pleasure? To grieve the holy Spirit likewise exposes to awful danger. " My spirit shall not always...

...stir up the wills of his faithful people" — a prayer that needs the assurance of Scripture, that it is " God that worketh in us to will and to do of his good pleasure." Christ is " exalted to give repentance." It must be stated, therefore, and received...

...evident, then, that as we sow we reap ; if to the flesh, corruption ; •if to the Spirit, life eternal. It is God that worketh in us to will and to do of his good pleasure, but we must also work out our own salvation with fear and trembling. I am not surprised...

...we cannot lift up ourselves ; and when up we cannot keep ourselves so, nor walk. Then how blessed, ' It is God that worketh in us to will and to do of his own good pleasure." These mercies, in the experience of them, bring you and me to love the Lord, to...

...constant thought and vigorous effort. We have to work out, develop, and complete our own salvation, for it is God that worketh in us to will and to do His good pleasure. He gives the thought, we have to embody it in conduct. He inspires the parpose,...

...the same passage be viewed in a theoretical aspect, as to how we are to work out our salvation, when it is God that worketh in us to will and to do, immediately the subject, which before was so clear and easy to be understood, becomes invested with...