 | Thomas Haweis - 1803 - 344 pages
...heart, which it becomes each soul to prove in himself. A goodness, not wrought by and out of ourselves ; (for ' in us, that is, in our flesh, dwelleth no good thing ;') [Rom. vii. 18.] but the emanation of that divine nature of which, through the Holy €rhost, we... | |
 | Thomas Tregenna Biddulph - 1810 - 556 pages
...blasphemies." These are the only fruits which the human soul, without Divine grace, can spontaneously produce. For " in " us, that is, in our flesh, dwelleth no good " thing." There is, therefore, in the unconverted breast, no opposing principle of holiness, not a ray of light... | |
 | Elizabeth Ussher - 1829 - 118 pages
...daily, and follow Him, and that not imaginary, but real holiness, is what He meant when he said, " Be ye holy for I am holy :" but think not, my Judith, that...to distinguish between those works wrought in our will and those wrought in us, by Him who condescends to dwell in us, and makes the hearts of his people... | |
 | 1832 - 642 pages
...misery is, he is looking into self for goodness, which might as soon be/ound in the confines of hell, " for in us, (that is, in our flesh,) dwelleth no good thing." Let the sensible sinner no longer attempt to draw water from such a broken cistern as self, no longer... | |
 | 1835 - 402 pages
...divine favour, to illustrate, as it were, our own insufficiency, and to convince us if need be, that " in us, that is in our flesh, dwelleth no good thing ;" but though to will be present with us, a desire to do good, yet how to perform we find not, but on the... | |
 | Eliza Cheap - 1841 - 412 pages
...an overcharged detail of the works of the creature, without properly manifesting that truth, that " In us, that is, in our flesh, dwelleth no good thing." But, as whatever is estimable is of grace alone through faith, I might enlarge without feeling bound to... | |
 | Church of Scotland - 1842 - 1004 pages
...in Jesus Christ, our invisible Head. If there be aught good in us, it dwelloth not in us by nature, for in us, that is, in our flesh, dwelleth no good thing; it arises from the working of thy good Spirit, who in Christ Jesus is granted to all his people fur... | |
 | G P. Neale - 1843 - 144 pages
...sinful hearts, while the latter can alone proceed from the grace of God, which has been given us, " for in "us, ("that is, in" our "flesh,) dwelleth no good thing." Thus we accordingly find that children and servants will far sooner imitate the bad, than the so called... | |
 | Thomas Boyles Murray - 1854 - 336 pages
...Come.' Brethren, we, by nature and practice, are exactly in the same statex in which those Jews were. ' In us, that is, in our flesh, dwelleth no good thing.' But that same Holy Spirit who pricked the Jews in the heart is now striving with us, and convinces us,... | |
 | Thomas Boyles Murray - 1858 - 468 pages
...Come.' Brethren, we by nature and practice are exactly in the same state in which those Jews were. ' In us, that is, in our flesh, dwelleth no good thing.' But that same Holy Spirit who pricked the Jews in the heart is now striving with us, and convinces us,... | |
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But think not, my Judith, that I mean that our works can save us, for very far be such a thought from me ; for in us, that is in our flesh, dwelleth no good thing. But we must take care to distinguish between those works wrought in our will and those... 
