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and trembling, for it is God that worketh in you.
both to will and to do„" This passage, so con-
genial to the spirit of this article and the Bishop's
question upon it, when properly explained, as it
has always been understood by the Church, will„,
we trust, 'supersede the -fiesoeSsity, for enteriug
into any of those minutiae with Wliiela this paw-
phlet abonnds, and which would only• trespass
upon the limits of your Paper, and the patience
of your 'Readers to no purpose.
From this passage it follow%directly, tha?man
has a share in the work df salvationa—not in.the
atonement, for that must all be the work Of Jesus,
hut in !making that atonement- efficaciistts, he
an agentathough very subordinate, to Corporate,
with the Spirit, who has promised "to work with
us'' in the language of the article, and, as Scrip-
ture says " to' help our infirmities," and in this
passage, " God .worketh in us both td will and
to do,",
,and therefore We. are exhorted by the •
Apostle tcwork ott our own sOvation with fear
and fieuthusa
Where would be the meaning of this exhorts-
tion, if we were impelled, whether we will or no,,
irresistibly and by Almighty power, without arty
cosoperation on our part, to perform this work?
Why should we fear and tremble if God himself,
without any efforts of our own to 'work out our
salvation, but the only works in us to
,will and to
do, i. e. the power. to will and to do, which eXe
planation of the. Bishop is said to' be neither
sound Divinity, good Philosophy, 'or common
sense. What Is the will a power which we
have at command ? exclaims his Opponent : but
the Bishop never says, thus a man' has his own
Will at command—he only asks, though. it is
Goa,' which enables us both- to will ~and to do,
are we not required in Scripture to extiat that
ability Wi may exert it or' not as we please,
and in proportion to our exertion, assisted by the
Spirit, will be our progress in Grace; but we-are
never compelled in any one instance, either to
ts:11 or to do ; we are left entirely to our own
fiee choice, anal the service of our God is said to
be perfect Freedom.
Eternal life is also said to be his free gift,
which as man could never merit by any suffici-
ency of himself, so it is not imposed upon him,
:whether he wilt oaths, but such a free gift as
demands the concurrence of his own endeavours
both in the use and application.
As to the moral to be deduced from this doc-
trine, and that of our opponent,. there stuely can,
be no comparison. if God is the " sole. Agent"
in the work of salvation, man will look up only to
God, aad.seeing that he o an do nothing either by
himself, or as a " labourer together" with God,
he Will be apt, on the one hand, if he is of a sari-
gpine, temper, with:full confidence-in the spirit,
to presume that he shall arrive at a ante of
polluted innocence, as his stay and support is nos
God of all purity, not to be controlled- by the
imperfection of his own endeavours, and if he
happens to he of a gloomy cast, he will sink into,
the melancholy thought, as he feels nothing but
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a sense of his total corruption, and not raise
self to those flights of 'fanaticism, that he is an
outcast from. heaven, far gone from originiii,
righteossness, and in a gulphAmpassible of abs-o-
lute depravity. This last character is already is
all the horrors' of despair, and the former is only
veering 'towards it, and will be sure at last. to
terminate in it; as " Enfin 'on desespere' quand
espere Tonjomrs.," or in the more emphatic lan-
Osage of Scripture, " Hope deferred maketh the
heart sick." •
While we that think, with the Bishop steer
between the horrors of despair and the presump-
tion that so often leads to it; we feel the gra-
cious promise of the Spirit to work in us both to
will and to do,; but this, so far from being an en-
couragement to idleness, is the greater stimulus
to activity, to think that the Spirit himself con-
descends to help our infirmities, and to raise us
as we are sinking under the various burdens ou
our road. Ile will make his strength perfect in
our weakness, and inspire us with grace sufficient
to salvation. In this he will 'not fail ; the rest
depends only upon ourselies. How forcibly
does this call upon us to take good heed to work
out our own salvation. This the great Apostle,
who may be supposed a ntore respectable !autho-
rity than any the most enlightened preacher'of
the present day, makes the great argument to his
converts," for God worketh in them both to will
and to do:" Upon this, therefore, we must be
intent with all ealltpstmesS and sincerity, that in
the midst. of an evil world, we' may yet be abje,
by the help of our Lord, to stand fast - and
be saved ; and, indeed, if wa had nothing
to do ourselves, whence could we 'be exhort-,
ed, as we are, by, the Apostle to pat ou
the .whole armour of God, that we may be able to
stand in the evil day, and having done, all; to
stand ?' This and every other such exhortation,
with which the Scriptures abound; would only be
kmockery npon the infirmity of man, if he were
doomed to sit still like Achilles waiting for his
armour from ilesven, ere he ventured into the
midst'of the enemies to his salvation.
And yet, With all this we presama not to stand
on our own strength, and for 'this cause we work
with the more diligence, because of ourselves
t.'oveoraerezt-ia.balotust6to"apilioAty tiohing, antie therefore are the
will and to do," which Gods has
ir‘s.enboutsl.t "1.570
are always working, but not our own works
We
strive to abound in the work of the Lord, and hope
to be rewarded for our labour, yeenot for our own ;
but, as•the Apostle assures us, we know that
our labour is not .in vain, for his blessing is
upon it. N.

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