| Ashbel Green - 1838 - 226 pagina’s
...Spirit to them that ask him." In like manner, the apostle Paul enjoins on the Philippians — " Work out your own salvation with fear and trembling" — and why ? — " For it is God that worketh in you, both to will and to do, of his good pleasure." Here the entire efficiency and sovereign good pleasure... | |
| Richard Hurrell Froude - 1838 - 500 pagina’s
...God, outstretched to help all to whom it has been revealed, on condition that they will to lean on it. It is God that worketh in us to will and to do of His good pleasure, but not so as to leave nothing to ourselves ; while it is we that will, we have... | |
| Charles Pettit McIlvaine - 1839 - 672 pagina’s
...many and many a prayer is daily sent up to heaven which is really the breathing of the Spirit, working in us to will and to do according to His good pleasure. But the Spirit is consistent with itself. The language of one year does not contradict the language... | |
| Mrs. Frederick Montgomerie - 1839 - 244 pagina’s
...benevolent purpose, by rushing, uncalled, into the presence of our Creator. St. Paul tells us, that it is God that worketh in us to will and to do of his good pleasure ; but instead of giving this as a reason why our own efforts may be dispensed... | |
| 1840 - 388 pagina’s
...privileges. The three first can he done without grace ; the three last cannot he done hut as ' God works in us to will and to do, according to his good pleasure.' " Now, admitting that there are certain duties hinding upon helievers as creatures, and springing out... | |
| Caroline Fry - 1840 - 270 pagina’s
...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.... | |
| Caroline Fry - 1841 - 278 pagina’s
...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. "... | |
| Leeds St. Peter - 1841 - 322 pagina’s
...Yet it cannot be denied that if we look for an exemplification of the great evangelical truth, that "it is God that worketh in us to will and to do of His good pleasure;" that it is "by grace we are saved through faith, and that not of ourselves,... | |
| Army - 1841 - 266 pagina’s
...our dear Lord and Master's work while it is day, as the night comes when no man can work ; and still it is God that worketh in us to will and to do of his good pleasure. But my experience does not keep pace with my knowledge ; neither do my dispositions... | |
| Caroline Fry Wilson - 1842 - 286 pagina’s
...the work of salvation remains in the same Almighty hand throughout: for to the last as at first, " It is God that worketh in us to will and to do." But there is a point from which He works generally, perhaps always, by instrumentality: not putting... | |
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