..." 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...

...indeed attempting to 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...

...the habit of referring everything to God. From one end of the ' New Testament' to the other, God is set forth and magnified in his agency and his operations....contrary is implied by commanding us to exert them), hut still nothing is done without him. If we have moral strength, we are strong in the inward might...

...as every work acceptable to God, and give the praise and glory to another, even to Jesus Christ, who worketh in us to will and to do according to his good pleasure : — thus leaving to the fallen sons of Adam, sin, misery and death, their sole proprietorship. "...

...of divine agency must depend on the truth or falsehood of scripture. That warrants us sufficiently, for " it is God that worketh in us to will and to do of his good pleasure," which passage, while it asserts the reality of E 2 God's influence, points out...

...natural inference from the free-will system, and it virtually denies the scripture doctrine that God " worketh in us to will and to do according to his good pleasure," and that " though a man's heart deviseth his way, the Lord dU , recteth his steps." It gives, moreover,...

...created by God the Holy Spirit, to be the blessed harbingers of good to all those who are alive unto him. It is God that "worketh in us to will and to do of his good pleasure," making us to be " his willing people in the day of his power." It is our duty...

..." it is not in man to direct his own way," and that it is not in man even to desire the holy way. " It is God that worketh in us to will and to do." Phil. ii. 13. Did we yield a listening ear, we could not be unacquainted with the word which, addressing...

...created by God the Holy Spirit, to be the blessed harbingers of good to all those who are alive unto him. It is God that "worketh in us to will and to do of his good pleasure," making us to be "his willing people in the day of his power." It is our duty...

...could not make a clean heart with unclean hands ; and every sinner will find the same impossibility. It is God that worketh in us to will and to do of his good pleasure. Here his grace will be honoured, and every effort should be made to know whether...