...most excellent collect in the liturgy for Easter-Day) by thy special grace preventing us dost put into our minds good desires, so by thy continual help we may bring the same to good effect." To the like purpose is the tenth article of the church of England. To say, that a man is good without...

...the^ same subject. Let us look into our liturgy. In the collect for Easter Sunday, our prayer is, ' We humbly beseech thee, that as by thy special grace preventing us, thou dost put into our hearts GOOD DESIRES ; so by thy continual help, we may bring the same to good effect.' The...

...wh» through thine only begotten Son Jesus Christ hast overcome death, and opened unto us the gate of everlasting life ; we humbly beseech thee, that as, by thy special grace prcTenting us, thou dost put inU< our minds good desires ; so b> thy continual help we ma\ bring the...

...beseech fhee, that as by thy special grace preventing us thou dost put into our minds good de- • sires, so by thy continual help we may bring the same to...effect, through Jesus Christ our Lord, who liveth and reigneth toit/i thee and tlie Holy Ghost, ever one God, world without end. Amen. THE Christian church,...

...who through thine only begotten Son Jesus Christ hast overcome death, and opened unto us the gate of everlasting life ; we humbly beseech thee, that as,...by thy special grace preventing us, thou dost put into our minds good desires ; so by thy continual help we may bring the same to good effect, through...

...hum' bly beseech thee that, as by thy special grace pre ' venting us, thou dost put into our hearts good ' desires ; so, by thy continual help, we may...to good effect, through Jesus Christ our ' Lord.' When any become thus fully convinced of these truths, they will also learn, that God oftea punishes...

...Almighty God, .... we humbly beseech thee, that as by thy special grace preventing 113, thou dost put into our minds good desires; so by thy continual help we may bring the same to good effect :" here preventing grace is acknowledged as putting good desires into our minds, but we are represented...

...in Christ * working in us? not with us. ' As by thy special ' grace preventing us thou dost put into our minds ' good desires, so by thy continual help, we may ' bring the same to good effect.'4 The help here also is prayed for as a subsequent blessing, to the good desires put into our...

...Holy Ghost? CALVIN. In this manner therefore the Lord both begins and CHUKCH OF ENGLAND. Almighty God, we humbly beseech thee, that as by thy special grace preventing us, completes the good work in thou dost put into our minds us : that it may be owing to good desires ;...

...Easter Sunday. The petition is — « that as by thy special grace preventing us, thou dost put into our minds good desires, so by thy continual help, we may bring the same to good effect." Ti,is distinction between preventing and cooperating grace is familiar in the institutions of this...