If people mean that man has in himself the power to work in partnership with God's grace they are most wretchedly deluding themselves.

Man's mind is like a store of idolatry and superstition; so much so that if a man believes his own mind it is certain that he will forsake God and forge some idol in his own brain.

Christ is the most perfect image of God, into which we are so renewed as to bear the image of God, in knowledge, purity, righteousness, and true holiness.

Faith is like an empty, open hand stretched out towards God, with nothing to offer and everything to recieve

When the Bible speaks, God speaks.

The subject then of these chapters may be stated thus, - man's only righteousness is through the mercy of God in Christ, which being offered by the Gospel is apprehended by faith.

There can be no courage in men unless God supports them by his Word.