![]() ![]() ![]() 2:13.) He does not say there that it is God who works the ability, and who excites in us the power of willing, but he says that God is the author of that upright will, and then he adds also the effect because it is not sufficient to will unless we are able to execute. Paul gives the reason, because, says he, it is God who works both to will and to accomplish. Let us strive therefore and stretch all our nerves, and do our utmost towards acting uprightly: but Paul advises that to be done with fear and trembling that is, by casting away all confidence in one’s own strength, because if we are intoxicated with that diabolical pretence that we are fellow-workers with God, and that his grace is assisted by the motion of our free will, we shall break down, and at length God will show how great our blindness was. And truly God does not wish us to be like stones. 2:12 ) here he exhorts the faithful to the attempt. ![]() ![]() It means that he is a Calvinist: "We see therefore that regeneration extends so far that the effect follows, as also Paul teaches: Complete, says he, your salvation with fear and trembling, (Phil. ![]()
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