| Benjamin Jenks - 1732 - 240 pages
...that courfe, to learn Wifdom, which he prefcribes j Chap. T>. 18. If (iny man among you feems to be -wife in this World, Let him become a, Fool, that he may be wife. The Wildom of this World, (though it be no better than Foolijhnefs with God, ver. ip. ) It makes Head... | |
| 1737 - 502 pages
...God is holy, which ttmpit ye are. j 8. Let no man deceive himlelf: If any man among yu fcemeth to be wife in this world, let him become a fool, that he may be wife. ii. Beware then, and let none of your Teachers draw you or himfelf into fo fatal a Mifcarriage, by... | |
| Desiderius Erasmus - 1740 - 386 pages
...a Fool as a Virtue of all other moft requifite and neceflary : For, fays he, [If any Man feem ta hi wife in' this World, let him become a Fool, that he may be wife.] Thus St. Luke records, how our Saviour, after his RefurreiSion, joining himfelf with two of his Difciples... | |
| Samuel Clarke - 1744 - 416 pages
...noble are called, ch. i. 20, 26. Therefore let no man glory in men : If any man among you feemeth to be -wife in This World, let him become a Fool, that he may be SER M. be ivife ; ie let him ky afide the Wifdom t>f Self-conceit, in order to become capable of Inftruction... | |
| Thomas Halyburton - 1751 - 552 pages
...thine (nun underftanding, Prov. iii. 5. Let no man deceive himjelf, if any man among you Jeemeth to be wife in this world, let him become a fool, that he may be -wife, 1 Cor. iii. 18. which he can rio otherwife be,, than by trufting entirely to the Lord Jcfus Chi ifr,... | |
| John Glas - 1761 - 528 pages
...manner, i Cor. iii. i8. i9. .20. "Let no man deceive himfclf. If " any man among you feemeth to be wife in this world, let " him become a fool, that he may be wife. For the wifdom " of this world is foolifhnefs with God. For it is written, " He taketh the wife in... | |
| John Flavel - 1770 - 520 pages
...wifdom, is to be fenfsble of your own folly ; i Cor. iii. 1 8. If any man among you feemet.li to be wife in this world, let him become a fool, that he may be wife. And to apply ourfelves by prayer to God the foundation of it, Jam. i. 5. if any man lack wifdom, let... | |
| Jonathan Dickinson - 1772 - 326 pages
...of Cod is -wifer than men, and the -weaknefs of Cod is ftronger than men. And he that feemeth to be -wife in this -world, let him become a fool, that he may be wife. But I have this further objection againft the diftinction you mention, that it is not only a human... | |
| Ralph Erskine - 1777 - 528 pages
...then truft not your own judgment in your own cafe. He that would be wife, in the fcripture fenfe, muft become a fool, that he may be wife, I Cor. iii. 18. He muft deny himfelf, and not lean to his own underjlanding, Prov. iii. 5. -There is pride of underJlanding... | |
| Jonathan Dickinson - 1784 - 406 pages
...is wifer than men, and the -weaknefs of Cod is jl ranger than men. And he that feemeth to be -uft/cf in this world, let him become a fool, that he may be wife. But I have this further objection againft the dijlinclion you mention, that it is not only a human... | |
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