 | Thomas C. Oden - Religion - 2002 - 188 pages
...responsible in freedom to exercise his will for good."43 The Wesleyan Church Articles of Religion state: "We have no power to do good works pleasant and acceptable to God without the grace of God by Christ working in us, that we may have a good will, and working with us when we have that good wilL"44 The... | |
 | Steve Turner - Music - 2009 - 308 pages
...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 the grace of God in Christ preventing us. that we may have a good wilL and working with us. when we have that good wilL"... | |
 | Ronald Paulson - Art - 2003 - 460 pages
...weight. Complete dependence on the grace of God is asserted, with only a small loophole for good works: We have no power to do good works pleasant and acceptable to God, without the grace of God by Christ preventing us, that we may have a good will, and working with us, when we have that good will. (Art.... | |
 | Mary Arshagouni Papazian - History - 2003 - 406 pages
...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 pleas-ant and acceptable to God, without the grace of God by Christ preventing [leading] us, that we may have a good will, and working with us, when we have that good... | |
 | Mary Arshagouni Papazian - History - 2003 - 406 pages
...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 the grace of God by Christ preventing [leading] us, that we may have a good will, and working with us, when we have that good... | |
 | Gerald Lewis Bray - England - 2004 - 682 pages
...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 the grace of God by Christ preventing us, that we may have a good will, and working in (with) us, when we have that good will.... | |
| |
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... 
