| Andrew Fuller - Theology, Doctrinal - 1810 - 272 pages
...gospel by the mere exercise of the intellectual faculty. Why is it that the natural man recei-ueth not the things of the Spirit of God, neither can he know them ; but because they are spiritually discerned ? A spiritual or holy temper of heart is that in the reception... | |
| Daniel McCalla, William Hollinshead - Congregational churches - 1810 - 458 pages
...only from spiritual and holy affections, in this. So true it is, that "the natural man receiveti? not the things of the spirit of God;, neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned;" and that only, through the medium of the gospel revelation.... | |
| 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... | |
| 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,... | |
| 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... | |
| 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,... | |
| 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,... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| Missions - 1849 - 748 pages
...adapted to satisfy the wants of the hungering and thirsting soul. "The natural man understandeth not the things of the Spirit of God, neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned." Just as the peasant whose uncultivated eye prefers some offensive... | |
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