FROM ME PASTOR AUGUSTINE SMART TO YOU. (Work out your salvation) *[[Philipians 2:12]]* Wherefore, my beloved, as ye have always obeyed, not as in my presence only, but now much more in my absence, [work out your own salvation with fear and trembling]. This is not to be understood in such a sense as though men could obtain and procure for themselves salvation by their own works and doings; for such a sense is contrary to the Scriptures, which deny any part of salvation, as election, justification, and calling, and the whole of it to be of works, but ascribe it to the free grace of God; The words work out your own salvation with fear and trembling, may be rendered, work about your salvation; This means, to employ yourself in things which accompany the free gift of salvation; such as hearing of the word, submission to the Gospel ordinances, and a discharge of every branch of moral, spiritual, and evangelical obedience; To go on in a course of cheerful obedience to the close of your days, believing in Christ, obeying his Gospel, attending constantly to his word and ordinances, and discharging every duty in faith and fear, until at last you should receive the end of your faith, a good reward to your soul. This is what the bible means by the phrase, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling I charge you by the word of God, work out your salvation with fear and trembling
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