 | Stephen Charnock - 1699 - 226 pages
...• Camer. on Myro in Acts 15. 7. 4. Humility and self-emptiness. Christ chose 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. 1. 26, 27, that nothing should be attributed to their worth... | |
 | Philip Doddridge - 1803 - 624 pages
...originally calculated for the plainer part of mankind, by that God, who has Chostn the foolish things of the world to confound the wise, and the weak things of the world to confound the things, which aremighty * ; and consequently, that a neglect and contempt of the common... | |
 | William Giles - Christian life - 1804 - 280 pages
...sought for in the object on whom its blessings are conferred. ' God hath chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise ; and the weak things...the things which are mighty ; and base things of the world, and things that are despised, hath God chosen, yea, and things which are not, to bring to nought... | |
 | Beilby Porteus (bp. of London.) - 1804 - 388 pages
...men, were singled out by our Lord. He chose, as the; apostle expresses it, " the foolish things of the world to confound the wise, and the weak things of the world to confound the things which are mighty -f- ; that his religion might not be established by the enticing... | |
 | John Fletcher - 1804 - 444 pages
...after the flesh, not many mighty, not many noble are called. 'But God hath chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise, and the weak things of the world to confound the things vhioh are mighty ; and base things of the world, and things, which are despised... | |
 | Ambrose Serle - 1806 - 502 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...things which are not, to bring to nought things which are ; that noflesh should glory in his presence. It is manifest, then, from these two or three texts,... | |
 | George Buist - Sermons, American - 1809 - 350 pages
...foolish things of this world to confound " the wise, and God has chosen the weak " things of the world to confound the things " which are mighty; and base things...things which are not " to bring to nought things which are j-'tha't " no flesh should glory in his presence." Our Lord and his Apostles thus rejoice in the.... | |
 | James Hare - God - 1809 - 412 pages
...established solely and entirely by, divine appointment, he writes, that God chose 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 base things of the world, and things which are not, to... | |
 | 1810 - 596 pages
...foolish thirty of the world to confound the wise; and God has chosen the weak things of the world to confound the things which -are mighty ; and base things...thingg which are not to bring to nought things which are, that no flcsk should glory in his presence." The parents of such a child have sustained an irreparable... | |
 | Henry Tanner - 1811 - 352 pages
...ages of his church. They are what the Apostle, in his strong language, calls the foolish things of the world, to confound the wise: and the weak things of the world, to confound the things which are mighty. Perhaps no writings, next to the sacred oracles, have been so... | |
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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... 
