...wise, or learned, or honest, and morally good ? Esteemed of men, and of a fair reputation ? Alas ! all this will never bring thee to God. It is in his...received the faithful saying, as the whole foundation of thy hope, "that Jesus Christ came into the world to save sinners ? " Hast thou learned what that...

...fruit, and that your fruit should remain : For without me ye can do nothing." And his apostles assert, that " by grace we are saved through faith, and that not of ourselves, it is the gift of God ;" that every grace is the fruit of his Spirit, of whose fulness we have received, and grace for grace...

...whatever evil we avoid, not we by our own strength do it, but the grace of God, which is with us* : by grace we are saved, through faith, and that not of ourselves ; it is the gift of God^ : for we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus, unto good works J. This doctrine the Scripture...

...pretend that our own right hand can save us. All the willings and runnings of our will, avail nothing. "By grace we are saved, through faith, and that not of ourselves, it is the gift of God." But though it is by this alone that we are saved—though we can claim nothing as due to us—but on...

...all the redeemed, who serve the Lord day and night in the same temple. Their united testimony is, " We are saved through faith •; and that not of ourselves, it is the gift of God. Not of works, lest any man should boast. For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good...

...working within us an assent unto that which by the word is propounded to us. Thus by grace are v>e saved through faith; and that not of ourselves, it is the gift of God. (Ephcs. ii, 8.) As the increase and perfection, so the original or initiation of Faith is from the...

...religion, that in its, that is to say, in our flesh (or natural man), " there dvvelleth no good thing," — that by grace we are saved, through faith, and that not of ourselves, for it is " the gift of God," — that " it is God who worketh" in ns " to will and to do of his good...

...original nature, the Son of God, over all, God blessed for ever ; if of salvation, it is of grace, through faith, and that not of ourselves, it is the gift of God. Finally : If they describe the end for which Christ gave himself for us, it was that he might redeem...

...the hope set before you. And how unspeakable is the mercy, that salvation is of the Lord, " by grace, through faith ; and that, not of ourselves, it is the gift of God!" What encouragement to seek this heavenly gift ! What support and consolation to those who, through...

...his mercy He saved us, by the washing of regeneration, and renewing of the Holy Ghost ;" that "it is by grace we are saved through faith, and that not of ourselves ; it is the gift of God, not of works, lest any man should boast." ' FRAGMENTS BY A DEPARTED BELIEVER. Continued from page 402;...