 | John Witherspoon - Fires - 1812 - 214 pages
...excellency of speech or of " wisdom, declaring unto you the testimony " of God." 1 Cor. ii. 1. "And my speech and " my preaching was not with enticing...men, but in the " power of God."* 1 Cor. ii. 4, 5. * Perhaps some will ask here, Is then human art, and are natural talents, which are the gifts of God,... | |
 | John Jones - 1812 - 1054 pages
...Jesus Christ and him crucified. And I was with you in weakness, and in fear, and in much trembling; And my speech, and my preaching, was not with enticing...wisdom of men, but in the power of God." 1 Cor. ii. 1. Conformable to the spirit of these remarks, is the following language of Philo. " As to learning,... | |
 | William Paley - Theology - 1812 - 586 pages
...which we give them. " Sty speech and my preaching was not with enticing words of men's wisdom, but in demonstration of the spirit and of power; that your faith should not stand in the wisdom of man, but of the power of God." 1 Cor. chap.ii. 4, 5. " The gospel, whereof I was made a minister,... | |
 | John Wesley - Methodism - 1812 - 446 pages
...Cor. ii. 4, 5, ' And my speech and my preaching were not with enticing words of man's wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power; that your faith should not stand in the wisdom of man, but in the power of God.' (p. 29.) It is only necessary to evince, that by the demonstration... | |
 | John Locke - 1812 - 516 pages
...Christ, and him crucilied. 3 And I was with you in weakness, and in fear, and in much trembling. 4 And my speech, and my preaching, was not with enticing words of man's wisdom, but m demonstration or' the Spirit, and of power : 5 That your faith should not stand in the wisdom... | |
 | Garnet Terry - 1812 - 408 pages
...brethren, when I came unto you,' writes St. Paul, ' came not with excellency of speech or of wisdom, for my speech and my preaching was not with enticing words of man's wisdom, but in demonstration of the spirit, and of power.' And why did he thus preach ? — ' That ' the '... | |
 | Missions - 1858 - 778 pages
...they aie foolishness to him ; neither can he know them, because they arc spiritually discerned.' ' And my speech and my preaching was not with enticing words...power, that your faith should not stand in the wisdom of man, but in the power of God.' ' For after that in the wisdom of God the world by wisdom knew not... | |
 | Missions - 1821 - 632 pages
...with enticing words of man's wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power " — Why? — " That your faith should not stand in the wisdom of men, but in the power of God." 1 Cor. ii. 4, 5. Mr. Scott J excellently remarks on this passage, that " the Apostle would use no other arts of persuasion... | |
 | John Murray - Sermons, American - 1813 - 438 pages
..."When thus empowered, they preach the word with holy and uniform energy." 1 Corinthians, ii. 4, "And my speech, and my preaching, was not with enticing words of man's wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power." But the power which was bestowed upon them,was the... | |
 | Presbyterianism - 1813 - 580 pages
...voice I might teach others also, than ten thousand words in an unknown tongue. <j 1 Cor. ii. 4. And my speech, and my preaching, was not with enticing words of man's wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit, and of power. r Jer. xxiii. 28. The prophet that hath a dream,... | |
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And my speech, and my preaching was not with enticing words of man's wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit, and of power, that your faith should not stand in the wisdom of men, but in the power of God. 
