 | John Wesley, George Story - Christianity - 1818 - 934 pages
...labour and suffering. This, my dear friend, is a painful stroke, yet it is a well directed stroke, by him who worketh all things according to the counsel of his own will. And though you cannot immediately see through the clond, yet you may hear him say, " What I do... | |
 | Philip Doddridge - 1803 - 676 pages
...oa?ht to engage me to be silent, when so natural an opportunity offered of declaring them, To the glory of him who worketh all things according to the counsel of his own will%. Yet I must repeat the caution, which I before suggested, that it would be madness for * Rom.... | |
 | Joseph Bellamy - Christian life - 1804 - 454 pages
...to election, always stands independent of works... Rom. ix. 11:1 say, so it was, through the power of him who worketh all things according to the counsel of his own will, that when all the other nations of the earth were suffered to renounce the true God and the true... | |
 | Thomas Vincent - Westminster Assembly - 1806 - 308 pages
...counsel of his will, and therefore most wisely, Eph. i. 11. Being predestinated according to th^ purpose of him who worketh all things according to the counsel of his own will. Q. 3. Wherefore did God decree all things that come to pass ? ''!-... A. God decreed all things... | |
 | Christianity - 1809 - 454 pages
...the condition of their salvation ; on the contrary, that their salvation must be owing •entirely to him who worketh all things according to the counsel of his own -wilL Whatever may have been their •opinions of them before, they now fully believed and hailed •with... | |
 | John Satchel - Christian life - 1809 - 480 pages
...my future subsistence. But how much better it would have been to have left these things entirely to Him who worketh all things according to the counsel of his own will. By taking thought, I could not add one cubit to my stature. Just as I had finished my former... | |
 | Joseph Bellamy - Congregational churches - 1811 - 554 pages
...according to election, always stands independent of works. Rom. ix. 11. I say. so it was, through the power of him who worketh all things according to the counsel of his own will, that when all the other nations of the earth were suffered to renounce the true God and the true... | |
 | Thomas Scott - Calvinism - 1811 - 408 pages
..." according to his good pleasure which he hath " purposed in himself;" " according to the purpose " of him, who worketh all things according to the " counsel of his own will."1 This was " with the " word of truth," hy the preaching of the gospel, or by means of instruction... | |
 | Edward Reynolds - Bible - 1811 - 434 pages
...are guided by a divine providence, and by a secret, invisible, unprevented direction from above, by him who worketh all things according to the counsel of his own will. To be "in the hand of God" denotes, first, subjection to his power, John iii. 35 ; Mat. xxviii.... | |
 | Benjamin Brook - Puritans - 1813 - 532 pages
...Lord hath said it in his word. But the manner how, and the time when, it shall be done, I leave to him *' who worketh all things according to the counsel of his own will," and whose " ways and judgments are past finding out." F. What you now do, or what you mean to... | |
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Christ, both which are in heaven, and which are on earth, even in him : in whom also we have obtained an inheritance, being predestinated according to the purpose of Him who worketh all things according to the counsel of his own will, that we should be... 
