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" For Christ sent me not to baptize, but 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 us which are saved it is the power... "
The Scripture Doctrine of Atonement Examined: First, in Relation to Jewish ... - Page 132
by John Taylor - 1809 - 298 pages
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Christ Knocking at the Door of Sinners' Hearts: Or, A Solemn Entreaty to ...

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...
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An Historical and Critical Dictionary, Volume 3

Pierre Bayle - Biography - 1826 - 434 pages
...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...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,...
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An enquiry into the Scripture-doctrine concerning the duration of future ...

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 that...
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Sermons i. On the efficacy of prayer and intercession. ii. On the articles ...

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,...
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Remarks on revelation & infidelity, speeches delivered in a literary society ...

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,...
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Eight Discourses on the Connection Between the Old and New Testament ...

Charles Daubeny - Atonement - 1802 - 512 pages
...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...
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The Christian Observer, Volume 31

Religion - 1832 - 852 pages
...me into that pulpit ; give me to see in what sense 1 am to understand those words of (he Apostle, ' not with wisdom of words, lest the cross of Christ should be made of none effect ,' and how far they are applicable to my preaching before such an audience, — and may nothing in...
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The New Testament of Our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ: Translated Out of ...

1802 - 374 pages
...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 be made of none effect 18 For the preaching of the cross is to them that perish, foolishness; but unto us which are saved,...
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The Meditations of a Recluse: Chiefly on Religious Subjects

John Brewster - 1802 - 330 pages
...Christ sent ** me not/' says St. Paul, " to baptize, " but *o preach the gospel, not withtmrfom '' of words, lest the cross of Christ should •" be made of none effect," that is, not with that parade of learning which you so much esteem, but with the inward dictates and...
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Sermons, on a Number of Connected Subjects: In which an Attempt is Made to ...

John Smalley - Congregational churches - 1803 - 454 pages
...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...
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