...would wish to direct their thoughts to the great Ruler of the world, as the Author of every blessing, " from whom all holy desires, all good counsels, and all just works do proceed;" and to recommend the most devout acknowledgments te the Father of mercies. THANKSGIVING. Many eerious...

...general properties of a sermon. May " this and every other work be begun, continued, and ended in him;" from whom " all holy desires, all good counsels, and all just works do proceed!" Amen. It appears from the text, that the " most excellent Theophilus" " had been instructed," (literally...

...from whom all holy defires, all good counfels, and all jufl works do proceed; Give unto thy fervants that peace which the world cannot give; that both our hearts may be fet to obey thy commandments, and alfo that by thee we being defended from thefeiW of our enemies,...

...implored their aid in their writings, shall not Christians, believing that it is from GOD alone, that "all holy desires, all good counsels, and all just works do proceed,"* implore BTS aid. Pope, however, in his Ode upon St. Cecilia's Day, (Cecilia being a Roman Catholic...

...Collect for the day, and after that, the Collects and Prayers following. HA Collect for Peace. OGod, from whom all holy desires, all good counsels, and...servants that peace, which the world cannot give ; that our hearts may be set to obey thy commandments, and also that by thee, we, being defended from the...

...Spirit can be more decisive, than those which so frequently recur in the liturgical service: — " O God,, from whom all holy desires, all good counsels, and all just works do proceed." -" Grant — that, by thy holy inspiration, we may think those things that be good." '** Cleanse the...

...principally concerned to inculcate a belief in, and a dopendance on, this divine Spirit, as that from which " all holy desires, all good counsels, and all just works, do proceed," and by which we are rendered acceptable to God, through Jesus Christ. The following quotations are...

...with all the preceding context. b Phil. ii. 13. To this effect is that collect in our liturgy; « 9 God, from whom all holy desires, all good counsels, and all just works do proceed," 8cc. c John iii. 16. and iv. 10. d It is called « the grace" that shall be brought unto us at the...

...of sight, the change made iii human nature by the fall ; and the renewing grace of the Holy Spirit, from whom 'all holy desires, all * good counsels, and all just works do proceed.' Calvinists are far from holding, that God commanded all those actions of men, which are done in accomplishing...

...then, in the judgment of Calvinists, fallen man is morally incapable of them, except by the grace of God, ' from whom all holy desires, all good ' counsels, and all just works do proceed.'1 * The approbation of virtue, and the detestation ' of vice,' (that is, of some virtues and...