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 which are mighty ; and base things of the world, and things which are despised, hath God chosen, yea, and things... The African Repository - Page 2531873Full view - About this book
| John Fletcher - 1804 - 444 pages
...are mighty ; and base things of the world, and things, which are despised hath God chosen, yea, and things which are not, to bring to naught things, that are : that no flesh should glory in his presence. Unto me, who am less than the least of all saints, who am nothing, who am the chief of... | |
| Jonathan Edwards - Congregational churches - 1808 - 520 pages
...arc mighty ; and base things of the world, and things which are despised, hath God chosen : Yea, and things which are not, to bring to naught things that are ; that DO flesh should glory in his presence." AMEN. QN THE ESSAYS ON THE PRINCIPLES OF MORALITY AND NATURAL... | |
| Henry Hunter - Bible - 1818 - 456 pages
...foolish things of the world to confound the wise: and God hath chosen the weak things of the world to confound the things which are mighty; and base things...naught things that are: that no flesh should glory in his presence." III. As the great Ruler of the world never can want an instrument to save, so he is... | |
| William Carus Wilson - Theology - 1831 - 516 pages
...that are mighty, and base things of the world and things which are despised hath God chosen, yea and things which are not, to bring to naught things that are, that no flesh should glory in his presence." I asked a boy in my class where God is : " in heaven^ and all over."' Is there any place... | |
| Andrew Fuller - Baptists - 1820 - 440 pages
...that are mighty ; and base things of the world, and things which are desfiised, hath God chosen, and things which are not, to bring to naught things that are: that no flesh should glory in his firesence. The reasoning of the apostle, in this passage, plainly supposes the following things... | |
| Andrew Fuller - 1820 - 442 pages
...that are mighty ; and base things of the world, and things which are desfiised, hath God chosen, and things which are not, to bring to naught things that are: that no flesh should glory in his firesence. The reasoning of the apostle, in this passage, plainly supposes the following things... | |
| Samuel Miller - Unitarianism - 1821 - 322 pages
...mighty, and foolish things to confound the wise, and things which are despised, hath God chosen, yea and things which are not, to bring to naught things that are, that no flesh should glory in his presence ? Let me entreat you here, my Christian Brethren, to look back, for a moment, to the beginning... | |
| Methodist Church - 1822 - 494 pages
...things which are despised, hath God chosen, yea, and things which are not, to hring to nought things that are ; that no flesh should glory in his presence. — We have this treasure in earthen vessels, that the excellency of the power may be of God, and not of us. —... | |
| Walter Balfour - Eschatology - 1828 - 374 pages
...society. On the contrary they were selected from the foolish, weak, and despised things of this world, to bring to naught things that are, that no flesh should glory in his presence. 3d, The mighty host they had to oppose, and the obstacles their testimony had to surmount.... | |
| Ephraim Eveleth - Hawaii - 1829 - 242 pages
...that are mighty ; and base things of the world, and things which are despised, hath God chosen; yea, things which are not, to bring to naught things that are ; that no flesh should glory in his presence." Stich are the first fruits of Christianity among these once heathen islanders ! I shall... | |
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