| James Ussher - 1660 - 628 pages
...our hearts are only evil continually. See it in the understanding : " Theb natural man perceiveth not the things of the Spirit of God, neither can he know them, for they are foolishness unto him," &c. Look upon his will, " Itc is not subject to the will of God,... | |
| John GRATTON - 1703 - 104 pages
...this Day, but what's freely given him from above : For the Natural Man is Natural {till, and knows not the things of the Spirit of God ; neither can he know them, becaufe they are Spiritually difcern'd. So that it's faid, The Spirit fearcheth aft things, yea, the deep things of... | |
| Richard Elliot - 1764 - 574 pages
...born of the SPIRIT, that he may believe on him : For he teftifieth, that the natural man receivetb not the things of the Spirit of GOD, NEITHER CAN HE KNOW THEM : Which is the very fame that CHRIST faid to Nicodemus ; except a man be born again he CANNOT SEE the... | |
| Robert Riccaltoun - 1771 - 468 pages
...love." The wife men of the world will fay, as Nicodemus did, " How can thefe things " be?" Itmuftbefo*; for the Apoftle has told us, " That the natural man,"...of Adam, " receiveth not " the things of the Spirit of God ; neither can he know them, becaufe they are " fpiritually difcerned." And indeed the very nature... | |
| Robert Riccaltoun - 1772 - 538 pages
...every man who attempts it muft feel in himfelf that it is, " That the natural man receiveth not the *6 things of the Spirit of God, neither " can he know them, becaufe they are " fpiritually difcerned ; " fuch men can be no judges of what is, and what is not a divine teftimony: nor is there any way... | |
| William Huntington - 1788 - 488 pages
...the fpirit, nothing can be expected from them but lies and confufion ; the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God, neither can he know them, hecaufe they are fpiritually difcerned, Rom. ii. 14. The Saviour will ever be glorified by the Holy... | |
| Thomas Bowman - 1790 - 260 pages
...power of afting. Agrees able to this are the words of the apoftle : " The natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God, neither can he know them, becaufe they are fpiritually difcerncd !" I. Cor. ii. 1-4. So that a man muft be changed from natural to fpiritual, or, a principle... | |
| 1798 - 612 pages
...we cannot know the words of God and truth, till he makes them known. " The natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God, neither can he know them, becaufe they are fpiritually difcerncd." I clofe thefe brief refle&ions with one remark to the Jinner, may the Holy' Spirit imprefs... | |
| 1800 - 464 pages
...ally:" and fuch is the doclrine 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, becaufe they are fpiritually " difcerned." So that he who ufes only his natural reafon, without fome higher principle of difcernment, which is... | |
| 1801 - 504 pages
...; but God hath revealed them unto us by his Spirit'. And he adds, « The natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God, neither can he know them, becaufe they are fpiritually difcerned.' Our Saviour alfo fpeaks of revealing himfelPunto his own people, as he doth not unto the world. Thefe,... | |
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