...introduced in the sacred scriptures as a motive to activity. Work out your own salvation with fear and trembling ; for it is God that worketh in you, both to will and to d* of his own good pleasure. Finally : We have often heard this doctrine introduced in the pulpitin...

...; fight the good fight of faith : so run that ye may obtain : work out your own salvation with fear and trembling, for it is God that worketh in you both to will and to do of His good pleasure." Therefore effort must be right. But it is clear that the company in which...

...should be so tremblingly careful to make a good use of it. " Work out your own salvation with fear and trembling ; for it is God that worketh in you both to will and to do, of his good pleasure." And by this very principle St. Paul regulated his own conduct ; for though...

...not as in my presence only, but now much more in my absence, work out your own 13 salvation with fear and . trembling. For it is God that worketh in you both to will and to 14 do, of his own good pleasure. Do all things 15 without murinurings and disputings; That ye may...

...connections ; the Apostle takes quite a different view, when he says, Work out your own salvation with fear and trembling, for it is God that worketh in you both to will and to do of his good pkasure. But if it be asked, how we come to work at all, the Apostle shews us, It...

...duty are very consistent. Phil. ii. 12, 13, " Work out your own • 2 Cor. v. 20. salvation, with fear and trembling ; for it is God that worketh in you, both to will and to do of his good pleasure." God gives men natural faculties and lays them under moral obligations,...

...the Holy Spirit to them that ask him.' Philipp. ii. 12, 13. ' work out your own salvation with fear and trembling ; for it is God that worketh in you both to will and to do of his good pleasure.' This can only imply that he works in us the power of acting freely, of...

...encouraging and authoritative still is the language of the apostle: Work out your own salvation with fear and trembling; for it is God that worketh in you both to will and to do of his good pleasure. Various instances might be produced of persons who, when they approached...

...Christ Jesus unto good works, which God hath before ordained, that we should walk in them, Eph. ii. 10. For it is God that worketh in you, both to will and to do of his good pleasure, Phil. ii. 13. They profess that they know God ; but in works they deny...

...encourage our own efforts. ' Work out your own salvation with fear and trembling;' here 1s our duty: ' for it is God that worketh, in you both to will and to do;'* here is our encouragement. And O! what a glorious encouragement, to have the arm of Omnipotence...