...that the efforts of man, though directed to the highest end, must be in vain, without the aid of Him from whom ' ' all holy desires, all good counsels, and all just works do proceed: " and the Meeting would, therefore, not only attribute all past success to His favour and blessimj,...

...Can any supposition be so just, so credible, so philosophical, as to attribute these effects to Him < from whom all holy desires, all good counsels, and all just works do pro* ceed ? ' " We have scarcely approached the question. We have but supposed certain relations in...

...ye can do nothing. John xv,5, God workcdi in yon hoth to will and to do. Phil, ii, 13. From Him Ct all holy desires, all good counsels, and all just works, do proceed." — 2d Collect Evening Prayer* His help is to he had hy prayer, and the grace which he communicates...

...be made like unto him, and be admitted to dwell with thee in thy heavenly kingdom. Amen. O GOD, ' O GOD, from whom all holy desires, all good counsels, and all just works do proceed ; give unto thy servants that peace which the world cannot give ; that both our hearts may be set to...

...prospects, or character, and those of other men, to our own wisdom, management, or exertions ; but to that God ' from ' whom all holy desires, all good counsels, and all ' just works do proceed/ We pretend not to have merited the divine protection, guidance, and blessings ; but feel that all was...

...out of sight the change made in 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...

...to will and to do, of his good pleasure." It is from God, as the " fountain of all goodness," that " all holy desires, all good counsels, and all just works do proceed." Every redeemed sinner will readily and thankfully confess, that it is " special grace" whereby he is...

...applaud the goodness of his own heart, on account of these things, while he-forgot to give glory to him, from whom all holy desires, all good counsels, and all just works, do proceed ;* or if you please, to give you it in other words, it should appear that he was more bent upon trusting...

...is not in our power to do any thing. It is from God, as we express it in one of our prayers, ' that all holy desires, all good counsels, and all just works do proceed.'" Mr. Holmes. "The Church, Sir, lost two of its brightest ornaments, when those good and faithful servants...

...Nature is the moral, spiritual, living element, from which, to use the words of the Prayer Book — " All holy desires — all good counsels — and all just works do proceed." This is true — but we have yet a more sure word of testimony. — See Eph. i. 3. Or, rather, to do...