...sufficient of ourselves, to think any thing ai of ourselves. 2 Cor. iii. 5. 27.— It is Ood thatworketh in us, to will and to do, of his own good pleasure. PhiL ii. 13. 28.— Wlicn ye have done all thing" that are commanded you, say we are unprofitable servants....

...PhilPreached February 26th. 16/7. at Cordwaiuer's Hall. 2. 12. The consideration is immediately added, that '' God worketh in us to will and to do of his own good pleasure." And I conceive there are two things hinted to us in that expression, namely, that whatsoever he doth...

...perseverance in good works may avert a judgment so fearful, may he in his mercy grant, " who alone worketh in us to will and to do of his own good pleasure." Another practical lesson, to be drawn from this view of the doctrine, I must not omit to mention. Some...

...more, that if we set ourselves to work out our own salvation with fear and trembling, he will work in us to will and to do of his own good pleasure. About these, our greatest concernments, we are at a certainty. He hath told us in his most plain and...

...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 out our salvation with fear...

...it and mortify ' it : for we are not sufficient of ourselves, * but our sufficiency is of God, who worketh ' in us to will and to do of his own good ' pleasure. But I believe that his merits ' will stand me in no stead, unless I en' deavour after sincere obedience...

...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, that we are by nature...

...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 exposition of my meaning ;...

...; that " without him I can do nothing," in the strictest sense, and that i See Appendix. " he works in us to will and to do of his own good pleasure," and from no other motive. Oh how amazing it is that people can talk so much about men's power and goodness;...

...influence ; and our working out our own salvation with fear and trembling does not exclude God's working in us to will and to do of his own good pleasure : Phil. ii. 12, 13. So that when, agreeably to our Topic, we compare the promises with the conditions...