 | John Flavel - Conversion - 1689 - 412 pages
...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 ; but unto us which are saved, it is the power of God," 1 Cor. 1 : 18 ; that is, the instrument by which the saving... | |
 | Pierre Bayle - Biography - 1826 - 434 pages
...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 us which are saved, it is the power of God. For it is written, I will destroy the wisdom of the wise,... | |
 | Matthew Horbery - 1744 - 306 pages
...dird>\eia, (Destruction,) in the Philosophical Sense of A miihilation. No. LIX. 1 Cor. i. 18.— The preaching of the Cross is to them that perish, Foolishness: But unto us which are saved, ii is the Power of God. It is plain what is here meant by the word perish: Them... | |
 | Samuel Ogden - 1780 - 380 pages
...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,... | |
 | A. M - 1797 - 358 pages
...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,... | |
 | Robert Leighton (abp. of Glasgow.) - 1798 - 536 pages
...foolifbnefs ; but unto them thai arefavfd, it is ihe power of God, fays the Apoftle, j Cor. i. 18. And it you would have the experience of this, if you would have life and growth by it, you muft look above the poor worthlcis meffenger, and call in His almighty help, who is the Lord of life.... | |
 | 1802 - 374 pages
...gospel : "iot with wisdom of words, lest the cross of Christ should be made of none effect 18 For the preaching of the cross is to them that perish, foolishness; 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... | |
 | John Smalley - Congregational churches - 1803 - 448 pages
...be understood ironically ; or as speaking after the manner of unbelievers. He says, ver. 18, " The preaching of the cross is to them that perish foolishness ; but unto us who are saved, it is the power of God." Both the matter, and the manner, of the primitive preachers... | |
 | 1804 - 476 pages
...gospel : not with wisdom of •words, lest the cross of Christ should be made of none effect. 18 For the preaching of the cross is to them that perish, foolishness ; but unto us which are saved, it is the power of God. 19 For it is written, I will destroy the wisdom of the... | |
 | John Fletcher - 1804 - 444 pages
...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, it is the power of God. For it is written, I will destroy the" vain "wisdom of... | |
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For the preaching of the cross is to them that perish foolishness; but unto us which are saved it is the power of God. 
