 | John Flavel - 1689 - عدد الصفحات: 412
...conveyance of spiritual life into the souls of men, though it is despised and contemned in the world. " The preaching of the cross is to them that perish, foolishness...unto us which are saved, it is the power of God," 1 Cor. 1 : 18 ; that is, the instrument by which the saving power of God communicates itself to the... | |
 | Pierre Bayle - 1826 - عدد الصفحات: 434
...science should in its turn appear folly to the Christians. Consider well these words of St Paul : " For Christ sent me not to baptize, but to preach the gospel...the cross of Christ should be made of none effect. For the preaching of the cross is to them that perish foolishness, but unto us which are saved, it... | |
 | Samuel Ogden - 1780 - عدد الصفحات: 380
...fliall he be thought worthy, 'who hath trodden under foot the Son of God? SERMON IV. i COR. i. 18. THE PREACHING OF THE CROSS IS TO THEM THAT PERISH, FOOLISHNESS;...BUT UNTO US WHICH ARE SAVED, IT IS THE POWER OF GOD. THERE is nothing, how well and wifely foever it is ordered, by man, or God, but exceptions may be taken... | |
 | A. M - 1797 - عدد الصفحات: 358
...contemptible in its nature, and its origin, its progress nothing could controul. v For" says St Paul, *' the preaching of the cross is to them that perish, foolishness : but unto us, which are saved, it is'the power of God. For it is written, I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and will bring to nothing... | |
 | 1802 - عدد الصفحات: 374
...whether I baptized any other. 1 7 For Christ sent me not to Daptize, but to preach the gospel : "iot with wisdom of words, lest the cross of Christ should...but unto us which are saved, it is the power of God. 1 9 For it is written, I u ill destroy the wisdom of the wise, and thren, by the name of our Lord)... | |
 | Charles Daubeny - 1802 - عدد الصفحات: 512
...less to do with the preaching of the Gospel than they vainly imagined. " Christ (sa3 7 s he) sent me to preach the Gospel, not with wisdom of words, lest the Cross of Christ should be made of none effect."—1 Cor. i. 17. Lest, in consequence of the attention being fixed upon the eloquence and abilities... | |
 | John Smalley - 1803 - عدد الصفحات: 454
...metaphysies, and of the flowers of rhetoric, then held in admiration. See ver. 17, of the context : " For Christ sent me not to baptize, but to preach the gospel...the cross of Christ should be made of none effect." By wisdom of words, however, is not to be understood, a skilful choice of proper expressions. Perspicuity... | |
 | John Fletcher - 1804 - عدد الصفحات: 444
...evangelical pastor it is wholly otherwise : " Jesus Christ," he is able to say with St. Paul, " sent me to preach the Gospel, not with wisdom of words, lest...the cross of Christ should be made of none effect. For the preaching of the cross is, to them that perish, foolishness ; but unto usj which are saved,... | |
 | 1805 - عدد الصفحات: 298
...not tell whence it cometh and whither it goeth : so is EVERY ONE that is born of the Spirit. — The preaching of the cross is to them that perish foolishness...but unto us which are saved it is the POWER of God. — Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit which is of God ; that we might... | |
 | Henry Hunter - 1806 - عدد الصفحات: 460
...doctrine of the cross in the eyes of prejudice, and philosophy, " and science, falsely so called." " For the preaching of the cross is to them that perish,...but unto us which are saved, it is the power of God. For it is written, I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and will bring to nothing the understanding... | |
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