 | George Burder - 1835 - 654 pages
...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... | |
 | William Jones - 1801 - 506 pages
...such is the doctrine of St. Paul, who has taught us, that the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God, neither can he know them because they arc spiritually discerned. So that he who uses only his natural Reason, without some higher principle... | |
 | John Smalley - 1803 - 454 pages
...a sinner, and makes him holy. But an apostle hath said, " The natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God, — neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned." And nothing can be more irrational, or more evidently absurd, than supposing... | |
 | 530 pages
...heavenly origin, it is one of the fruits of the Spirit, and the natural man " Understandeth not the things of the Spirit of God, neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned." But the odium with which true humility has been regarded by many is not... | |
 | Andrew Fuller - 1805 - 258 pages
...CAN come to Christ, except the Father draw him ; and that the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God, neither CAN he know them, because they are spiritually discerned ; it is concluded that these are things to which the sinner, while unregenerate,... | |
 | 1806 - 650 pages
...suggested by the apostle in the second chapter of 2 Cor. " The carnal mind receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God ; neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned." The divine act of capacitating, qualifying, or disposing the mind for the admission of these perceptions,... | |
 | Ambrose Serle - 1806 - 502 pages
...which shall stand at least as long as this present world, that the natural man receiceth not the things of the SPIRIT of God; neither can he know them, BECAUSE they are spiritually discerned. And it is equally a truth upon fact, that many an unlettered clown, who... | |
 | Joseph Hall (bp. of Norwich.) - 1808 - 550 pages
...them, or grope after them, in an Egyptian darkness: For the natural man perceheth •not the things of the Spirit of God ; neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned ; 1 Cor. ii. 14. How much less can they know the God of Spirits, who, besides... | |
 | William Romaine - 1809 - 316 pages
...the Greeks and Romans did : indeed, the natural man, let hinrbe 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 direction but this rule. Neither... | |
 | Ezekiel Hopkins (bp. of Derry.) - 1809 - 648 pages
...that it can scarce receive them when revealed; 1 Cor. ii. 14. The natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned: the light, that can reveal these, must break immediately from heaven itself : and.so it did, upon the Prophets,... | |
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For the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God, neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned. 
