 | Thomas Bowman - 1790 - 260 pagina’s
...have no power to do good works, pleafant and acceptable to God, without the grace of God, by Chriftr preventing us, that we may have a good will, and working with us when we have that good." So that however common it may be to declare the contrary, we have neither ability nor inclination to... | |
 | Benjamin Jenks - 1793 - 554 pagina’s
...good works, to faith, and calling upon God; *' wherefore we have no power to do good works, " pleafant and acceptable to God, without the grace " of God...working with us, when we ** have that good will." Now, if in flicking fo clofe to the articles and homilies of the church, (which I am fure I do, as... | |
 | 1811 - 632 pagina’s
...power to do good works, pleasant and acceptable to God, without >he grace of God by Christ pre•yentmg us, that we may have a good will, and working with us, w hen we have that good will.' The intelligent reader would icarccly fail to observe, in the passage... | |
 | Methodist episcopal church - 1798 - 192 pagina’s
...have no power to do good works, pleafant and acceptable to God, without the grace of God by Chrilt' preventing us, that we may have a good will, and working with us, when we have that good will. NOTES. {l) 2 Cor. iii. 5. Not that we are fufficient of ourfelves, to" think any thing as of ourfelves,... | |
 | George Burder - 1835 - 654 pagina’s
...works, pleasant and acceptable to God, without the grace of God by Christ preventing (going before) us, that we may have a good will, and working with us when we have that good will.' This is the doctrine of Scripture — ' It is God that worketh in you, both to will and to do, of his... | |
 | 1802 - 628 pagina’s
...good works to faith, and calling upon ( Jod : wherefore \ve have no power to do good works pleafant and acceptable to God without the grace of God by...will, and working with us when we have that good will, XI. Of the Jaßif cation of Man. ~V\7"E are accounted righteous before God, only for the * ' merit... | |
 | John Overton - 1802 - 436 pagina’s
...good works, to faith, and calling upon God : wherefore we have no power to do good works, pleafant and acceptable to God, without the grace of God by Chrift PREVENTING us, that we may have a good mil, and working with, us, when we have that good will." By " natural good wrorks" is here, doubtlefs,... | |
 | 1842
...we would. We cannot either will, or work that which is good, without the grace of God going before, that we may have a good will, and working with us, when we have that good will. (Article x.) Hence it is that " in many things we offend all." For our sinful actions, words and thoughts,... | |
 | 1803 - 748 pagina’s
...and good works, to faith and calling upon God ; wherefore we have mpmuer to do good works, pleafant and acceptable to God, without the grace of God by Chrift preventing in, that we may have a gmi •will, and tverJtirrg 'with at when we have that good will. " By natural... | |
 | John Fletcher - 1804 - 444 pagina’s
...have no power to do " good works, pleasant and acceptable to God, with" out the grace of God by Christ preventing us, that "we may have a good will, and working 'with us " when we have that good will." Nothing less than a lively conviction, of the corruption, weakness, and misery, described in these... | |
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The condition of man, after the fall of Adam, is such, that he cannot turn and prepare himself, by his own natural strength and good works, to faith, and calling upon God : wherefore we have no power to do good works pleasant and acceptable to God, without... 
