...continually: and 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 are spiritually discerned. So that he who uses only his natural Reason, without some higher principle...

...only from spiritual and holy affections, in this. So true it is, that "the natural man receiveti? not the things of the spirit of God;, neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned;" and that only, through the medium of the gospel revelation. If any thingtherefore,can...

...John vi. 44.— No man can come unto me, Sec. and 1 Cor. ii. 14. — The natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God, neither can he know them, &c. 'Tis true, if these two will prove the point, they are equal to two hundred; but it were as well...

...corrupt, we overturn the foundations of the Gospel ; which teache» us, that the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God, 'neither can he know them. — Man, it seems, is so far from knowing the spiritual things revealed to him in the Scripture, that,...

...gospel by the mere exercise of the intellectual faculty. Why is it that the natural man recei-ueth not the things of the Spirit of God, neither can he know them ; but because they are spiritually discerned ? A spiritual or holy temper of heart is that in the reception...

...Gospel by the mere exercise of the intellectual faculty. Why is it that the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God, neither can he know them, but because they are spiritually discerned? A spiritual or holy temper of heart is that in the reception...

...draw him." John, vi. 44. " Without me ye can do nothing." John, xv. 5. " The natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God, neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned." 1 Cor. ii. 14. " Not that we are sufficient of OURSELVES, to think any...

...other throughout the whole book. 0 how blind is every man by nature ! " The natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned," 1 Cor. ii. 14. However, this confusion laid in my blind understanding,...

...lied unto God the Holy Ghost. " The things of God knoweth no man. But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God, neither can he know them."|| I1 rom these two sentences compared, it appears that the things of God, and the things of the Spirit...

...made foolish the wisdom of this world? The world by wisdom knew not God. The natural man receivfth not the things of the Spirit of God; neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned. Thus it is clear, that many of the doctrines of the Bible are foolish and...