...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 our...

...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 as ministers...

...operating, and we cooperating with him. "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." He is not superseding our endeavours (the very contrary is implied...

..." 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...

...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 the...

...and we co-operating with him. " 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." He is not superseding our endeavours, (the very contrary is implied...

...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 with, it...

...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...

...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, not of...

...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...