 | Methodist episcopal church - 1798 - 192 pages
...have no power to do good works, pleafant and acceptable to God, without the grace of God by Chrilt' preventing us, that we may have a good will, and working with us, when we have that good will. NOTES. {l) 2 Cor. iii. 5. Not that we are fufficient of ourfelves, to" think any thing as of ourfelves,... | |
 | George Burder - 1835 - 654 pages
...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...God, without the grace of God by Christ preventing (going before) us, that we may have a good will, and working with us when we have that good will.'... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 1815 - 436 pages
...expressing the sentiment: but the sentiment itself is more happily conveyed in our Article : — '' We have no power to do good works, pleasant and acceptable to God, without the grace of God preventing us, that we may have a good will, (ut velimus,) and working with us when we have that good... | |
 | 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,... | |
 | 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 - 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... | |
 | Henry Dimock - 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 prepare himself, by his own na" tural strength and good works, to faith and calling " upon God : wherefore we have no power to do " good works, pleasant and acceptable to God, with" out the grace of God by Christ preventing us, that "we may have a good will, and working 'with... | |
 | 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... 
