...(says that 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...

...' 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 collect for the First Sunday in Lei t directs us to pray thus: 'Give us grace to use such abstinence,...

....TA-through thine only begotten Son Jesus Christ hast overcome death, and opened unto us the gates of everlasting life ; we humbly beseech thee, that...Ghost, ever one God, world without end. Amen. The Efiiitle Col. iii. 1. IF ye then be risen with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ...

...away again unto their own home. Monday in Easter Week, The Collect. ALmighty God, who through thine only begotten Son Jesus Christ hast overcome death,...effect, through Jesus Christ our Lord ; who liveth and reigneth with thee and the Holy Ghost, ever one God, world without end. Amen. For the Epistle. Acts...

...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...Ghost, ever one God, world without end. Amen. THE Christian church, from its earliest age, * hath set apart a day for the commemoration of our Lord's...

...is exclusively ascribed to the ' preventing grace of God in Christ * working in us? not with us. ' As by thy special ' grace preventing us thou dost...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...

...pray thus, " 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...

...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...

...uied ihe terms «• special grace." It is in the Collect for Easter Sunday. The petition is — « that as by thy special grace preventing us, thou dost...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...

...their wills and affections, so put into their minds good desires, that, by his continual help, they may bring the same to good effect, through Jesus Christ, our Lord. 80 / ADDRESS TO THE Senate of t&e asntoeusitp of Cambridge, OCCASIONED BY THE PROPOSAL TO INTRODUCE...