 | Methodist Church - 1835 - 386 pages
...the word. Their principle was, " God giveth the increase," and " hath chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise, and the weak things of the world to confound the things that are mighty," " that no flesh; — (that neither preacher nor convert) should... | |
 | Henry Gauntlett - 1835 - 908 pages
...other human being — to be the mother of the Redeemer of man. Thus God "chooses the foolish things of the world to confound the wise, and 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... | |
 | Dorothy Anne Thrupp - Christian life - 1836 - 248 pages
...wise, and bring to nothing the understanding of the prudent ?" " God hath chosen the foolish things of the world, to confound the wise ; and the weak things of the world, to confound the mighty, hath God chosen; that no flesh should glory in his presence." The wise are they, who, in the world's... | |
 | Olinthus Gregory - Apologetics - 1836 - 520 pages
...hearts, by means the most humble, and most likely to be contemned. " He chose the foolish things of the world to confound the wise ; and the weak things of the world to confound those which are mighty ; and base things of the world, and things which are despised, did... | |
 | William John Deane - Bible - 1891 - 678 pages
...to better guidance. "The world by wisdom knew not God," and he " hath chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise, and the weak things of the world to confound the things that are mighty, and base things of the world, and things which are despised, hath... | |
 | David James Burrell - Sermons, American - 1892 - 350 pages
...thrippence and ye are not an honest man." Thus it is written, God hath chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise, and the weak things of the world to confound the things which are mighty. Our gospel has been tried in ten thousand times ten thousand... | |
 | Joseph Thompson - 1893 - 300 pages
...general providence, no less than in religion, God has often appeared to choose the foolish things of the world to confound the wise, and the weak things of the world to confound the mighty." The doctor then enters into particulars, and concludes with a solemn appeal to his "dear brethren,"... | |
 | Henry Ward Beecher - Sermons - 1893 - 906 pages
...see that a new meaning will be given to the Gospel, and that God hath chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise, and the weak things of the world to confound the things which are mighty, and the lose things of the world, and things which are despised,... | |
 | Richard Roberts - Sermons, English - 1894 - 344 pages
...the power may be of God and not of us," and that in His wisdom "God hath chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise, and the weak things of the world to confound the things that are mighty" (1 Cor. i. 27). III. GOD as THE ACTIVE AGENT, the Prime Mover... | |
 | William Charles Edmund Newbolt - Clergy - 1894 - 366 pages
...deficient in authority, as the ambassador of Jesus Christ, Who " hath chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise ; and . . . the weak things of the world, to confound the things which are mighty . . . that no flesh should glory in His presence." 1 n. " Through... | |
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God hath chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise, and the weak things of the world to confound the things which are mighty... 
