 | George Holden - 1840 - 154 pages
...obedience. To this truth we have the consentient testimony of the sacred writers. John vi. 29. " This is the work of God, that ye believe in him whom he hath sent.'' John vi. 44. " No man can come to me, except the Father which hath sent me, draw him.'' Rom. xii. 3,... | |
 | John Bainbridge Smith, Richard Hooker - 1840 - 508 pages
...inability to save himself by his own deeds. Instead of man's work, it is the " work of God ;" and " this is the work of God, that ye believe in Him, whom He hath sent 1." Not indeed that a naked belief of itself will save, but that without belief, all things else are... | |
 | John Bunyan - 1841 - 586 pages
...principles in the hearts of men, by obeying that to fit themselves for faith, but immediately he tells d being then effectual to life when the hand of the Lord is effectually the John, vi. 29. This is the work of God — that is, " This is his commandment, that we believe in the... | |
 | Christian - 1841 - 998 pages
...hear.' It is the sinner's duty to hearken by — Believing the word of Christ; for 'this,' says he, ' is y And the faith which he requires is not a mere act of the understanding, but a principle of the heart,... | |
 | 1858 - 498 pages
...prosper. 2 Chron., xx., 20. God is the object of faith, Christ also is the object of faith. " This is the work of God, that ye believe in Him whom He hath sent." "Believe in God," saith Christ, " believe also in Me." When on earth, we are told, He "preached the... | |
 | Richard Hooker, Izaak Walton - 1841 - 624 pages
...Saviour in the Gospel of St. John doth note, terming it by an excellency, The Work of God57, " This is the work of God^ " that ye believe in him whom he hath sent." Not that God I doth require nothing unto happiness at the hands of men saving only a naked belief (for... | |
 | Nicholas Ridley - 1841 - 578 pages
...asked, " What shall we do that we may work the works of ibid. God?" he answered them thus: "This is the work of God, that ye believe in him whom he hath sent." You see how ho exhorteth them to faith, for faith is that work of God. Again, " This is the bread which... | |
 | 1851 - 592 pages
...Not to do so is the greatest sin we can possibly commit. Christ himself taught expressly : ' This is the work of God, that ye believe in him whom he hath eent ;' and of this belief it is said : ' Receiving the end of your faith, even the salvation of your... | |
 | Emanuel Swedenborg - 1842 - 290 pages
...Then said they to Jesus, What shall we do, that we may work the works of God ? Jesus answered, This is the work of God, that ye BELIEVE IN HIM WHOM HE HATH SENT." vi. 28, 29. " Verily, verily, I say unto you, he THAT BELIEVETH IN ME hath everlasting life." vi. 47.... | |
 | Francis Close - 1842 - 254 pages
...(^Heb. xi. 6) : — but 1. The faith of which our Lord speaks has a particular object — — " this is the work of God, that ye believe in Him whom he hath sent : " that is, in the Lord Jesus Christ. To believe that God the Father so loved a lost world, that he... | |
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This is the work of God, that ye believe in him whom he hath sent. 
