 God hath chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise; and God hath chosen the weak things of the world to confound the things that are mighty ; and base things of the world, and things which are despised, hath God chosen ; yea, and things...  The Church of Scotland pulpit - Page 138by Scotland Church of - 1845Full view - About this book
 | Stephen Charnock - 1699 - 226 pages
...• Camer. on Myro in Acts 15. 7. 4. Humility and self-emptiness. Christ chose the foolish things of the world to confound the wise, and the weak things...the world, to confound the things that are mighty, 1 Cor. 1. 26, 27, that nothing should be attributed to their worth and dignity, but to his grace and... | |
 | 1712 - 140 pages
...Mighty, Mighty, not many Noble $ but bath chofen the fbolifh 'Things of the World to confound the Wife, and the weak^ 'Things of the World to confound the Things that are Mighty. Ic was his pleafing Reflexion on the Difplay of God's Glory in accomplifhing his Defigns by the moft... | |
 | Samuel Clarke - 1743 - 500 pages
...God and the Wifdom of God: For- God hath chofen the foolijh things of the World to confound the wife, and the weak things of the world to confound the things that are mighty, That no Flejh Jhould glory in his Prefence. And in the i ith to the Rom. ver. 30, he illuftrates and... | |
 | John Leland - 1769 - 554 pages
...boafted Learning and Philofophy. Thus God. chofe the fooliJh Things of the World to confound the "wife, and the weak Things of the World to confound the Things that are mighty ; and hafe Things of the World, and Things which are dejpifed, hath God chofen, yea, 256 DISCOURSE XII. yea,... | |
 | Beilby Porteus (bp. of London.) - 1783 - 468 pages
...foolifh things '' of the world to confound the wi/e," (a title peculiarly arrogated by the Stoics) " and the " weak things of the world to confound the " things that are mighty -f- ; carting down " imaginations, and every high thing that " exalteth itfelf againft the knowledge... | |
 | James Fordyce - 1785 - 258 pages
...when thou haft " chofen the foo'ufh things of " the world to confound the things i ** that are wife, and the weak *' things of the world to confound " the things that are mighty." So it was when thou faweft fit to propagate the pure Religion of thy Son, by the feebleft inftruments,... | |
 | Joseph White - 1789 - 634 pages
...its firft preachers, that God * had chofen the foolifi things of- the •world to confound the wife, and the weak things of the world to confound the things that were mighty. Now to the candid enquirer, who views with attention the various and ftubborn difficulties,... | |
 | Robert Gray - 1796 - 364 pages
...ftrength and greatnefs, God purpofely chofe " the foolifli .things of the world to confound " the wife, : and ; the weak things of the"• world to; confound the things, that were " mighty." ;, The : refinance which his religion encountered, ferved but to illuftrate the' irrefiftible... | |
 | Robert Gray - 1796 - 360 pages
...Strength and greatnefs, God purpofely chofe " the foolifh things of the world to confound " the wife, and the weak things of the *' world to confound the things that were " mighty." The refiftance which his religion encountered, ferved but to illuftrate the irrefiftible... | |
 | 1828
...that " not many mighty, not many noble, are Billed, but that God hath chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise, and the weak things...world to confound the things that are mighty, and W things of the world, and things that are despised, hath God chosen ; yea, and things that are not,... | |
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