 | 1815 - 436 pages
...spring out necessarily of a true and lively faith ;' — and that ' whereas the condition of man, since the fall of Adam, is such, that he cannot turn and...strength and good works to faith and calling upon God:' it is the office of God the Holy Ghost, 'by his grace preventing us, to put into our minds good desires,... | |
 | Ecclesiastical law - 1802 - 628 pages
...\ve have no power to do good works pleafant and acceptable to God without the grace of God by Chrift preventing us, that we may have a good will, and working with us when we have that good will, XI. Of the Jaßif cation of Man. ~V\7"E are accounted righteous before God, only for the * ' merit... | |
 | John Overton - Evangelicalism - 1802 - 436 pages
...after the fall of Adam, is fuch, that he cannot turn and prepare himlelf, by his own natural ftrength and good works, to faith, and calling upon God : wherefore we have no power to do good works, pleafant and acceptable to God, without the grace of God by Chrift PREVENTING us, that we may have... | |
 | 1842
...we would. We cannot either will, or work that which is good, without the grace of God going before, that we may have a good will, and working with us, when we have that good will. (Article x.) Hence it is that " in many things we offend all." For our sinful actions, words and thoughts,... | |
 | Great Britain - 1802 - 764 pages
...no power of ourselves to help 'ourselves,' and -that ' of ourselves ' we cannot but fall ;' that • we have ' no power to do good works, pleasant ' and acceptable to God, \\ithout the ' grace nf God by Christ preventing 'as;' now for want of our logic, it cinnut be expected... | |
 | Voltaire - Philosophy - 1802 - 398 pages
...whatever Marcus Aurelius may say, a Christian is bound to believe that Without the grace of God by Christ, we have no power to do good works, pleasant and acceptable to the Deity. As to the above question, Why should the absolute master of all have been more intent on... | |
 | 1803 - 748 pages
...after the fall of Adam, is fuch, that he cannot turn and prepare himfclf, by his own natural ßrength and good works, to faith and calling upon God ; wherefore we have mpmuer to do good works, pleafant and acceptable to God, without the grace of God by Chrift preventing... | |
 | Henry Dimock - Bible - 1804 - 360 pages
...diametrically opposite to the doctrines of the Church of England. In the 10th Article it is said, " we have no power to do good works, pleasant and acceptable...God by Christ preventing us, that we may have a good witl, and working with us when we have that good will." JJo words can be more pointedly directed against... | |
 | John Fletcher - 1804 - 444 pages
...and therefore," in every person born into this world, it deserveth " God's wrath and damnation."...." The condition " of man, after the fall of Adam, is...that he " cannot turn and prepare himself, by his own na" tural strength and good works, to faith and calling " upon God : wherefore we have no power to... | |
 | 1804 - 824 pages
...that " we have no power 0 do good works, pleasant and ac•coiable to God, without the grace of •cd by Christ preventing us, that we may have a good will, and working iviih us when we have that good will,' .; '1, consequently, that salvation is, from first to last,... | |
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The condition of man, after the fall of Adam, is such, that he cannot turn and prepare himself, by his own natural strength and good works, to faith, and calling upon God : wherefore we have no power to do good works pleasant and acceptable to God, without... 
