| 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... | |
| 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
...Apoftle has told us, " That the natural man," one who' is merely a child 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 of the thing declares it. The... | |
| Robert Riccaltoun - 1771 - 508 pages
...Apoftle has told us, " That the natural man," one who is merely a child 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 of the thing declares it. The... | |
| 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... | |
| 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,... | |
| George Burder - 1835 - 654 pages
...of his heart are evil continually ; that the natural man (the animal or rational man) receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God, neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned.' Hence we see that reason, though a noble gift of God, is insufficient to... | |
| 1800 - 458 pages
...we overturn the foundations of the Gofpcl ; which teaches us, that " the natural man receiveth not the things *' of the Spirit of God, neither can he know them." — Man, it feems, is fo far from knowing the fpiritual things revealed to him in the Scripture, that,... | |
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