There should be an exercise on our part, to answer to that which is the purpose of God for us, in practical holiness, &c. We are exhorted to work out our salvation in fear and trembling, while it is God who works in us the willing and the doing of His good pleasure. Thus we become blameless and harmless children of God in the midst of a crooked and perverse generation, shining as lights in the world. Otherwise the Holy Spirit will be grieved, and we shall have no present enjoyment of sonship.