...propofing them* His Minifters for the Happinefs of our Fellow-creatures $ and may juftly be confident, that he "who hath 'begun a good Work in them, 'will perform it * perfedly. • But perhaps not our Succefs, but the and Benefit of it, will be called in queftion....

...they be not wanting to themfelves-. They may " be confident of this very thing, that he which hatfo begun a good work in them, will perform it until the day of Jefus Chrift," Phil. i. 6. The. change made in converfion may truly be fa id to be a greater inftance of the power...

...mark, for the prize of the high cal« ling of God in Chrift Jefus ;" not doubting, but " that he that hath begun a good * work in them, will perform it until the day * of Jefus Chrift." They have the promife of God ; of that Being who is infinitely juft and true, that he will remember...

...a well grounded hope, through faith in Christ, are kept by the power of God, unto final salvation. That " he who hath begun a good work in them, will 'perform it until the day of Jesus Christ. ' ' The doctrines also of God's eternal decrees, and universal Providence : that every...

...be enabled to maintain it as an unshaken principle through every change of dispensation and frame, " that he who hath begun a good work in them " will perform it until- the day of Jesus Christ f." This animating confidence, so well suited, and so necessary, to render the soul superior...

...invigorates and supports the members of the body natural — ' being ' confident,' as the apostle speaks, ' that he who ' hath begun a good work in them will perform it, un' /// the day of Jesus Christ ' ;' or, as the same apostle elsewhere expresses it, in terms of strict...

...withdraws his gracious influences from them. It is sufficient for them to be assured, that "He Who has begun a good work in them will perform it until the day of Jesus Christ." But it may be still further said, that all true believers have a principle of grace,...

...nature of our necessity. When the Apostle tells the Philippians, that he is " confident that he which hath begun a good work in them will perform it until the day of Jesus Christ;" (e) by the beginning of a good work he undoubtedly designs the commencement of conversion...

...prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus,' Phil. iii. 14 ; nothing doubting, but * that he that hath begun a good work in them, will perform it until the day of Jesus Christ.' Phil. i. 6.— God is faithful, that has promised ; and therefore they may rest assured,...

...they can be in a corrupt and tempting world.'1 Angels feel for them rather hope than fear, they know that He who hath begun a good work in them will perform it unto the day of Christ, — that faithful is He that promised, who will also do it. If angels feel...