 | Robert Hawker - Sermons - 1801 - 276 pages
...in the rejection of the gospel. The carnal mind is enmity against God for it is not subject to the law of God neither indeed can be so then they that are in the flesh cannot please God. Hence, those very awful sights with which human life abounds. Some like Mary sunk in sorrow.... | |
 | 1842
...of it s malignant tendencies,) " the carnal mind is enmity against God, for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be. So then they that are in the flesh, cannot please God." How can a sinful nature please Him ? And how can the lustings of the flesh, which in some... | |
 | John Smalley - Congregational churches - 1803 - 454 pages
...for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be." And he goes on to say, ver. 8, 9, " So then they that are in the flesh cannot please God. • But ye are not in the flesh, but in the spirit, if so be that the Spirit of God dwell in you." He is manifestly describing the essential... | |
 | Andrew Fuller - Faith - 1805 - 258 pages
...and CANNOT cease from sin — The carnal mind is enmity against God : for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed CAN be. So then they that are in the flesh CANNOT please GodA On account of this different phraseology, some writers have affirmed that men are under... | |
 | Richard Steele - Business ethics - 1807 - 238 pages
...: But they that are after the Spirit, the things of the Spirit. For to be carnally minded is death. Because the carnal mind is enmity against GOD ; for...can be. So then, they that are in the flesh cannot please GOD. For if ye live after the flesh ye shall die, &c.'" Rom. viii. 5, 13. John ii. 15, 16. Having... | |
 | Jonathan Edwards - Congregational churches - 1808 - 520 pages
...verse would be falst, which iai*;i"rei*erir good tree bringeth forth good fruit," Sic. Horn. viii. <"', 7, 8, 9. ". For to be carnally minded is death ; but...spiritually minded is life and peace : Because the camttlwiind.ia enmity against God ; for it is not subject to the law of God, . neither indeed can be.... | |
 | Thomas Scott - Sermons, English - 1810 - 594 pages
...forth in enmity, and sometimes in blasphemy against the divine perfections, law, and governvuc.it; " because the carnal mind is enmity against God, " for...can be; so then, they that are in the flesh cannot " please God." This state of the human race God foresaw; and he, who alone is competent to estimate... | |
 | Christian biography - 1810 - 480 pages
..."Without faith it is impossible to please God," and Rom. viii. 6, 8. "To be carnally-minded is death; because the carnal mind is enmity against God: for...can be. So then, they that are in the flesh cannot please God.* If they that are in the flesh did any part of their duty towards God, or if what they... | |
 | Thomas Williams - Bible - 1810 - 244 pages
...of the impenitent. He says, " The carnal mind is enmity against God ; for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be. So then they that are in the flesh cannot please God." It ought to be considered that whatever any persons may do, while they are impenitent,... | |
 | Thomas Scott - Calvinism - 1811 - 824 pages
...begun a good work in you, will per" form it until the day of Christ."7 P. DXLVII. 1.3. 'They, &c.'8 "Because the " carnal mind is enmity against God:...can be. " So then they that are in the flesh cannot please ** God." — On this passage Calvin writes what is here quoted. The sophists maintained what... | |
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For to be carnally minded is death; but to be spiritually minded is life and peace. Because the carnal mind is enmity AGAINST God: for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be. So then THEY THAT ARE IN THE FLESH CANNOT PLEASE GOD. 
