| Andrew Fuller - Baptists - 1810 - 292 pages
...John vi. 44.— No man can come unto me, Sec. and 1 Cor. ii. 14. — The natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God, neither can he know them, &c. 'Tis true, if these two will prove the point, they are equal to two hundred; but it were as well... | |
| William Jones - Anglican Communion - 1810 - 516 pages
...continually: and such is the doctrine of St. Paul, who has taught us, that the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God, neither can he know them because they are spiritually discerned. So that he who uses only his natural Reason, without some higher... | |
| William Huntington (works.) - 1811 - 448 pages
...other throughout the whole book. 0 how blind is every man by nature ! " The natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned," 1 Cor. ii. 14. However, this confusion laid in my blind understanding,... | |
| Samuel Hopkins - Millennium (Eschatology) - 1811 - 506 pages
...lied unto God the Holy Ghost. " The things of God knoweth no man. But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God, neither can he know them."|| I1 rom these two sentences compared, it appears that the things of God, and the things of the Spirit... | |
| Johnson Grant - Great Britain - 1811 - 528 pages
...draw him." John, vi. 44. " Without me ye can do nothing." John, xv. 5. " The natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God, neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned." 1 Cor. ii. 14. " Not that we are sufficient of OURSELVES,... | |
| Congregational churches - 1813 - 590 pages
...made foolish the wisdom of this world? The world by wisdom knew not God. The natural man receivfth not the things of the Spirit of God; neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned. Thus it is clear, that many of the doctrines of the Bible are... | |
| Elihu Thayer - Congregational churches - 1813 - 390 pages
...excellency of the divine perfections ; and it is also evident that the " natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God, neither can he know them because they are spiritually discerned." The second thing taken for granted, in the doctrine, is that... | |
| Missions - 1810 - 596 pages
...faith in the gospel report, are not produced by an effort of nature; tor' the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God, neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned.' Weakness and wickedness are the consequences of the Fall :... | |
| J S. Pipe - Christianity - England - 19th century - 1813 - 646 pages
...Divine origin by the depth of matter contained in them ; but the fact is, the "natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God ; neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned ;" and that is a medium they do not choose to seek or adopt,... | |
| New Church gen. confer - 1864 - 598 pages
...the sake of that conception which is dear to the natural man, although the natural man receives not the things of the Spirit of God, neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned. (1 Cor. ii. 14.) The circumstance of one small window at the... | |
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