 | 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... | |
 | Robert Hall - Christianity - 1815 - 260 pages
...he cannot see it in its na- : ture, beauty, and spiritual glory, for the natural man perceiveth not the things of the Spirit of God, neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned. Hence (says Christ) ye must be born again. The doctrine of... | |
 | Samuel Lavington - 1815 - 640 pages
...eyes ; we stumble at noon-day as in the night." (Isai. lix. 9.) " For the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God ; neither can he know them, for they are spiritually discerned." (1 Cor. ii. 14.) He may, indeed, discourse of them ; but it must... | |
 | Baptists - 1817 - 486 pages
...enmity against God, is not subject to his law, neither indeed can be." "The natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God, neither can he know them ; for they are spiritually discerned." How consoling is it to reflect, that in this state of human... | |
 | Methodist Church - 1825 - 512 pages
...the law or gospel, without grace. To instance only a few texts : — " The natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God ; neither can he know them, for they are spiritually discerned." " By the deeds of the law no flesh shall be justified in his sight."... | |
 | Religion - 1818 - 588 pages
...the truth as well as the ability to love and obey it when perceived. " The natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God, neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned." The understanding of every sinner is so blinded, and his heart... | |
 | Josiah Conder - Dissenters, Religious - 1818 - 326 pages
...voluntary actions. If there is any truth in the Scripture declaration, that " the natural man receiveth not the things of the " Spirit of God, neither can he know them, " because they are Spiritually discerned, but " he that is spiritual judgeth all things,"—then, we... | |
 | Andrew Fuller - 1820 - 442 pages
...; viz. John vi. 44. No man can come unto me, &c.~ and 1 Cor. ii. 14. The natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God, neither can he know them, Sec. It is true, if these two will prove the point, they are equal to two hundred : but it were as... | |
 | Andrew Fuller - Baptists - 1820 - 440 pages
...viz. 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. It is true, if these two will prove the point, they are equal to two hundred : but it were as well... | |
 | Infant baptism - 1820 - 230 pages
...incapable of making a free profession at the time of his baptism. " For the natural man receiveth not the things of the spirit of God, neither can he know them, for they are spiritually discerned." But since, in consequence of the pleadings of the cele-- brated... | |
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For the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God, neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned. 
