...of him as the Greeks and Romans did : indeed the natural man, let him be ever so wise, knoweth not the things of the Spirit of God ; neither can he know them ; because they are spiritually discerned. The scripture then is the only rule of right and wrong. Conscience has no...

...enthusiasm to. the na.tural man to talk of the inward working of the holy Spirit ; for he discerneth not the things of the Spirit of God, neither can he know them, because he has no spirkual discernment. To a man who never found himself in darkness, never felt the hardness...

...them in truth, flesh and blood hath not revealed them unto you, ' For the natural man recciveth not the things of the Spirit of God, neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned ;' and human nature can rise no higher than its source ; but the anointing...

...evident, that the natural man is opposed to him that is spiritual. " The natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God : neither can he know them. But he that is spiritual judgeth (or discerneth) all things." However learned and sagacious in human...

...cannot see the kingdom " of God." John iii. 3 — 6. " The natural man (i]/u^1xof) re" ceiveth not the things of 'the Spirit of God, neither can he know " them, because they are spiritually discerned." 1 Cot. ii. 14. ' or not.' For this is no other than taking away all the...

...no man knoweth the things of God, but the Spirit of God. The natural man recciveth not the tilings of the Spirit of God, neither can he know them because they are spiritually discerned," 1 Cor. ii. 12, 14. The doctrines preached by the Apostles in these passages,...

...— The Scripture is a dead letter till that Spirit breathe upon it : " The natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God ; neither can he know them, for they are spiritually discerned." Implore the Holy Ghost to decipher and apply his own book ; to...

...becoming himself an unconscious witness to the words of the great apostle, " The natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God, neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned." Thus open to the attacks of the enemy who " walketh about seeking whom...

...God; for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be." " The natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God ; neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned." Here then the dispensation of the divine Spirit to render the mercy of...

...speaks, he could reason the world into Christianity; forgetting that " the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God, neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned." I will not suppose, that Mr. Irving really imagines that either he, or...