...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...

...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,...

...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,...

...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...

...faith in the gospel report, are not produced by an effort of nature; tor' the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God, neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned.' Weakness and wickedness are the consequences of the Fall :...

...excellency of the divine perfections ; and it is also evident that the " natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God, neither can he know them because they are spiritually discerned." The second thing taken for granted, in the doctrine, is that...

...Divine origin by the depth of matter contained in them ; but the fact is, the "natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God ; neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned ;" and that is a medium they do not choose to seek or adopt,...

...the sake of that conception which is dear to the natural man, although the natural man receives not the things of the Spirit of God, neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned. (1 Cor. ii. 14.) The circumstance of one small window at the...

...he cannot see it in its na- : ture, beauty, and spiritual glory, for the natural man perceiveth not the things of the Spirit of God, neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned. Hence (says Christ) ye must be born again. The doctrine of...

...eyes ; we stumble at noon-day as in the night." (Isai. lix. 9.) " For the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God ; neither can he know them, for they are spiritually discerned." (1 Cor. ii. 14.) He may, indeed, discourse of them ; but it must...