 | Thomas Scott - Calvinism - 1817 - 530 pages
...enable a man to " see the kingdom of God." — " The " natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of " God: for they are foolishness to him, neither can he " know them, because they are spiritually discerned."f If our Lord intended merely to say, " Except a man be " baptized... | |
 | John Venn - Sermons - 1818 - 424 pages
...faculties : " The carnal mind is enmity against God." " The natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him; neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned." But I address myself, I trust, to those in this assembly who can duly... | |
 | John Thornton - Repentance - 1818 - 210 pages
...which excludes the precious light ot divine truth. The natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him, neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned, 1 Cor. ii. 14. To one who is in this state, the clearest displays of... | |
 | Thomas Tregenna Biddulph - 1818 - 348 pages
...blindness, which is on our understandings ; for « the natural man receiveth « not the things of the Spirit of God, for they are « foolishness to him : neither can he know them, « because they are spiritually discerned.'* This is true not only of the illiterate, but also of the wise and... | |
 | 1819 - 594 pages
...divine influence to enlighten and sanctify the soul. " The natu*al man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him, neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned." I will refer to only a few passages : " The Son of Man came not to... | |
 | William Carus Wilson - Theology - 1840 - 644 pages
...to imL press ; failing to save : as it is written, " the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him : neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned." That, for this reason, the God of mercy not only provides a Saviour,... | |
 | 1824 - 604 pages
...interpreters of the will of God has well remarked, ' The natural roan receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God; for they are foolishness to him. Neither can he know them, because they are spiritual]; discerned.' " Few men have marked with greater abhorrence, than I have done in... | |
 | sir Adam Gordon (bart.) - 1819 - 484 pages
...evident, because the Apostle says (1 Cor. ii. 14), that the natural man receivethnot the things of the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him ; neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned. By the natural man is understood the ttnrenewed person in his mind,... | |
 | Thomas Scott - 1819 - 164 pages
...1—8. + Col. i. IS, 14. St. Paul affirms that " The natural man re" ceiveth not the things of the Spirit of God ; " for they are foolishness to him, neither can he " know them ; because they are spiritually dis" cerned*." The contrast between the natural man and the spiritual man, and... | |
 | Robert Walker, Hugh Blair - Presbyterian Church - 1820 - 548 pages
...God, the fountain of life. Thus it is written, '• The natural man rcceiveth not the things of the Spirit of God ; for they are foolishness to him : neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned." Nay, " the carnal mind is enmity against God ; for it is not subject... | |
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The natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God ; for they are foolishness to him : Neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned. 
