...indeed naturally arises out of them, " work out our salvation with fear and trembling, knowing that it is God that worketh in us to will and to do" (Philip. ii.13). Among the multifarious questions debated on the polemical arena in the seventeenth...

...to be derived from God ; and good actions acknowledged to be done by the power of His Spirit working in us to will and to do according to His good pleasure. This is a general description of religion, from which it appears that religion has two parts, — thought...

...our own voluntary exertion.' Such an action is wholly the effect of our own voluntary exertion; but " it " is God that worketh in us to will and to do." The idea of God doing one part, and the creature another part, in the action of a voluntary agent,...

...any virtuous difpofition in us, or any good work performed by us; it is the production of God, who worketh in us to will and to do according to his good Phil- «• is. pleafure : have we any good that we can call our own, tliat we have independently and...

...any virtuous difpofition in us, or any good work performed by us; it is the production of God, who worketh in us to will and to do according to his good Phil. ii. 10. plea/tire : have we any good that we can call our own, that we have independently and...

...inquire, with heartfelt gratitude and joy now took leave. He had not, however, been gone more than * It is God that ' worketh in us to will and to do of his good pleasure.' Yet ' faith cometh by hearing;' and the ' Father will give the Holy Spirit to...

...the living substance : for I am well assured, if we are come to an establishment in the faith, that it is God that worketh in us to will and to do, we shall also be sure that he will work righteousness in us, and through us, and be taught to shun...

...THE SCRIPTURES TEACH US TO ASCRIBE EVERY THING GOOD IN MAN TO THE INFLUENCE OF THB JDIVINB ORACH. " It is God that worketh in us to will and to do."* This, so far from superseding the necessity of means, always supposes their existence. On miraculous...

...will to good ; and if the will is ever inclined lo good, that is the result of " power from on high." It is GOD that worketh in us to will and to do. He gives the power of both, and supplies it to the end. So far we go with I <i. CHARMERS ; nay, we...

...the New Testament to the other, God is set forth, and magnified in his agency and his operations. la the greatest of all businesses, the business of salvation....according to his good pleasure." He is not superseding our endeavpurs (the very contrary is implied by commanding us to exert them,) but still nothing is done...