. The Christian faith asserted against Deists, Arians, and Socinians : in eight sermons preach'd at the Lady Moyer's lecture in the Cathedral Church of St. Paul, 1728, 1729, and since greatly enlarged : to which is prefix'd, a large preface concerning the light and the law of nature, and the expediency and necessity of revelation. SERMON VIII. Preached June 5-. 17x9. I Cor. II. they are Spiritually dijcerned. ^c^^g^( Words in their near-er and more remote Con-nediion give us the T^afofiywhy the Natural Man receivethnot the things o/God, neithercan he know them. He receiveththe
. The Christian faith asserted against Deists, Arians, and Socinians : in eight sermons preach'd at the Lady Moyer's lecture in the Cathedral Church of St. Paul, 1728, 1729, and since greatly enlarged : to which is prefix'd, a large preface concerning the light and the law of nature, and the expediency and necessity of revelation. SERMON VIII. Preached June 5-. 17x9. I Cor. II. they are Spiritually dijcerned. ^c^^g^( Words in their near-er and more remote Con-nediion give us the T^afofiywhy the Natural Man receivethnot the things o/God, neithercan he know them. He receiveththem not^ becaufe in his NatUffl/State, and according to the Principles of Na-tural Science he is indifpofed to believe them:He is rather prejudiced againft them, and theyare foolijhnefs unto him : As he receiveth not theThings of God from a Natural Indifpofition,neither can he know them, becaufe they are Sptritualy B b a dif-^. 3 88 Of the Natural Man difcerned: There is a Natural Limitation of hisKnowledge, which reftraineth it from extend-ing to them: and there is a Natural Blindnefsin his prefent eftate, which hindereth him fromdifcerning them. With refpedt to the limitationof our Knowledge it hath not entered into theheart of Man to conceive; with refped: to ourNatural J3lindnefs, it hath not entered into theheart of Man to believe them: with regard to thefirft we could not know them, becaufe no Man^notveth the things of God, but the Spirit of God :with reference to the fecond we cannot believethem, nor when revealed can we know them in afaving manner, becaufe they are Spiritualy dif-cerned. From hence alfo we may coiled^ the Reafbnwhy the Jpoflle taught thefe thitigs not in theWords, which Mans Wtfdom teacheth, but whichthe Holy Ghofi teacheth, comparing Spiritual thingswith Spiritual, becauje they are Sptritualy difcerned. There are feveral fenfes, in which both An-cient and Modern Writers have explain
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