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Philipians 2:13 For it is God which worketh in you both to will and to do of his good pleasure. both to will and to do of [his] good pleasure;God works in converted men a will to that which is spiritually good; which is to be understood, not of the formation of the natural faculty of the will; or of the preservation of it, and its natural liberty; or of the general motion of it to natural objects; nor of his influence on it in a providential way; but of the making of it good, and causing a willingness in...

In Chapter 25 of "An Exposition of Hebrews", in relation to Hebrews 6:4-6 concerning the work of the Holy Spirit, Pink asks: We ask now, On what has the Spirit wrought? What was the character of His work toward them? How had they been made "partakers" of Him? To what extent? This leads us to point out that Scripture reveals a twofold working of God’s Spirit with men: with the elect, and with the non-elect. It is of the latter we shall here treat. And in conclusion he states: We sincerely trust and earnestly pray that it may please our...

h1,h2{font-family: "Arial Black","Helvetica Bold" sans-serif;font-weight:normal} h1{font-size: 20px} h2{font-size: 14px} It shall be our endeavor, this morning, to make as simple and as plain as possible, the matter of the covenant spoken of in our text, and I shall thus speak—first upon the covenant of grace; secondly, its everlasting character; and thirdly, the relationship which the blood bears to it. "The blood of the everlasting covenant."

The Bondage of the Will by Martin Luther J. I. Packer and O.R. Johnston, translators of Luther's masterpiece from German and Latin to English, say in the Introduction: "Free will was no academic question to Luther; the whole Gospel of the grace of God, he held, was bound up with it, and stood or fell according to the way one decided it. . . . It is not the part of a true theologian, Luther holds, to be unconcerned, or to pretend to be unconcerned, when the Gospel is in danger. . .. The doctrine of the Bondage of the...