...does operate on the Mindj and yet, when we are exprefsly told, that God was manifeji in the Fle/h, and that it is God, Who worketh in us both to will and to da\ it is as unreafonable to difbelieve thefe Things, becaufe we cannot explain or comprehend the...

...good thought, but that our Sufficiency is of God. And in another place, Phil. ii. 13.' He declares, that it is God who worketh in us both .to will and, to do of his good pleafure. And that ,men might not be deceived by a fingle expreffion, , the prophet...

...ourfelves." We are indeed exhorted tp work out our own falvatipn ; but at the fame time we are told, " that it is God who " worketh in us, both to will and to do of his *' good pleafure." The Apoftle's words are chofen with the moft fignificant propriety....

..." cleanse us from all filthiness of flesh and spirit." How cati we doubt of this, when we are told, that " It is God who worketh in us, both to will and to do, of his own good pleasure." Let then the word of God have free course, in enlightening our minds...

...to his vomit, or of the sow that was washed to her wallowing in the mire. The scriptures assure us, that, it is God who worketh in us both to will and to do of his good pleasure ; and,, that, it is he alone who granteth repentance unto the acknowledging...

...striving for the acquisition of Christian morality, let us pursue it in the Christian way. Let us remember that it is God who worketh in us both to will and to do : that we are not sufficient of ourselves to think, much less to do, any thing as of ourselves,...

...sufficiency is of • " God." (2 Cor. iii. 5. Comp. 1 Cor. xv. 10.) And in another place he tells us that it is " God " who worketh in us both to will and to do of His " good pleasure." (Phil. ii. 13.) Man in himself is a mere mass of sin and corruption...

...bids us work out our salvation with fear and trembling, and yet assures us in the very same sentence that it is God who worketh in us both to will and to do. Thus the prophet represents those who are returning to God, as encouraging themselves with the...

...views of the subject, they hear and believe, that God can change the heart, and has promised to do it ; that " it is God, who " worketh in us both to will and do ;" and they begin to beg of " him to work in them both to will and to " do." " Thou hast chastised...

...none of all the children of men is able to " bring a clean thing out of an unclean :" and in a word, that " it is God who worketh in us, both to will and to do of his good pleasure." But it is generally his pleasure to work by his creatures : to help man...