...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)...

...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...

..." 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...

...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...

...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...

...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....

...disposition in us, or any good work performed by us, it is the Phil, ii 13. production of God, who worketh in us to will and to do according to his good pleasure : have we any good that we can call our own, that we have independently and absolutely made or purchased...

...be in us' any considerable endowment of body or mind, it is from God, the author of our being, who worketh in us to will and to do according to his good pleasure. 6. It is vain because mischievous. It corrupts our mind with a false pleasure that chokes the purer...

...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...