 | Thomas Shaw Bancroft Reade, Thomas S. B. Reade - 1832 - 436 pàgines
...cry for mercy, through the blood of Christ; leaving it with God to bless his own appointed means, who worketh in us to will and to do according to his good pleasure. Peter said to Simon Magus : " Thy heart is not right in the sight of God. Repent, therefore, of this... | |
 | Richard Watson - 1832 - 1030 pàgines
...given by the religion of Christ to all who are seeking the moral renovation of their nature ; because " it is God that worketh in us to will and to do of his good pleasure." 6. When such is the moral nature of Christianitv, how obvious is it that its... | |
 | 1833 - 244 pàgines
...proper action.' ' How is this V asked the officer. ' The apostle assures us,' replied Henry, ' that " it is God that worketh in us, to will and to do of his good pleasure," and all our sufficiency is of him ; and to insure this divine assistance we... | |
 | Charlotte Elizabeth Tonna - 1839 - 596 pàgines
...we must be independent for life and salvation; his word speaks much of reward, never of merit — " for it is God that worketh in us to will and to do of his good pleasure." Phil. ii. 13. £. HUMAN LIFE. AlR — ' My lodging is on the cold ground.' I... | |
 | Mary Jane Graham - 1834 - 142 pàgines
...commanded to " work out our own salvation with fear and trembling ; " but the reason follows — " for it is God that worketh in us to will and to do of his own good pleasure." 5 I have used the word condition in this place, 'for the more convenient... | |
 | William Jay - 1834 - 326 pàgines
...warfare, and you must fight. The blessings of the gospel are free, but they are to be sought, and gained. It is God that " worketh in us to will and to do of his own good pleasure," but we are commanded notwithstanding this, yea, because of this, to " work... | |
 | Josiah Forster - 1835 - 42 pàgines
...the Father, but is of the world." Seek, however, that this may be exhibited more by the power of him that worketh in us to will and to do according to his own good pleasure, than by a hasty zeal for his honor, or by a mere orthodoxy of profession before... | |
 | 1834 - 330 pàgines
...contemplate that other part of the great economy of the Christian growth, and Christian erudition, that it is God that worketh in us to will and to do of his own good pleasure ; that, indeed, my friends, of ourselves we are in a state of total inability,... | |
 | 1835 - 440 pàgines
...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... | |
 | Catharine Esther Beecher - 1836 - 376 pàgines
...exhorted to "work out our own salvation with fear and trembling," and the very reason assigned is, that " it is God that worketh in us to will and to do." It is therefore a doctrine intended not to be employed, as you seem to be disposed to do, to quiet... | |
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Work out your own salvation with fear and trembling;" and why? "for it is God that worketh in us to will and to do according to his good pleasure. 
