 | George Whitefield - Presbyterian Church - 1771 - 476 pages
...like himfelf, when he faid, " GOD has chofen the weak things of this world, to confound the ftrong; and things that are not, to bring to nought the things that are." I am now come thus far in my return to London. I purpofe, GOD willing, being there in about ten days.... | |
 | George Whitefield - Presbyterian Church - 1771 - 524 pages
...inform you, dear Sir, that our LoRrf hath chofcn the weak things of this world to Confound the ftrong ; and things that are not, to bring to nought the things that areIf it was not fo, what fhould fuch a poor, weak, helplefs weteh as I am do ? In JESUS, and in him... | |
 | George Whitefield - 1772 - 522 pages
...inform you, dear Sir, that our LORD hath choferr the weak things of this world to confound the ftrong , and things that are not, to bring to nought the things that are. If it was not fo, what fhould fuch a poor, weak, helplefs wretch as I am do ? In Jssus, and in him... | |
 | Sermons - 1789 - 416 pages
...are ufed to accomplifh the moft important ends ; " things " that are defpifed hath God chofen, yea and " things that are not, to bring to nought the " things that are, — that no fiefb may glofy in " his prefence." Let us then confider every difcovery, whether of the... | |
 | Jonathan Edwards, Samuel Hopkins - 1804 - 404 pages
...mighty ; and the bafe things of ' the world, and things that are defpifed, hath God ' chofen ; yea, and things that are not, to bring to "•nought the things that are." SERMON XIV. EPHESIANS iii. 10. To the Intent that now unto the Principalities and Pozvers in heavenly... | |
 | George Lawson - Conversion - 1812 - 256 pages
...behold the cherubim and seraphim ; but "he hath chosen the most despised things of the world, and the things that are not, to bring to nought the things that are." We are great sinners. When we are deeply convinced of sin, we will be disposed to think that no sins... | |
 | John Wesley - 1813 - 470 pages
...are mighty : And the base things of the world, and things that are despised, hath God chosen ; yea, things that are not, to bring to nought the things that are ; 89 That no flesh may glory before God. But of him are ye SO in Christ Jesus, who is made by God unto... | |
 | Jonathan Edwards - Congregational churches - 1817 - 554 pages
...are mighty : and the ban- things of the world, and things that are despised, hath God chosen / yea, and things that are not, to bring to nought the things that are. 2. God has hereby confounded Satan with his own weapons. It is so contrived in the work of redemption,... | |
 | Aaron Crossley Hobart Seymour - 1820 - 326 pages
...severity. How many pardons shall I ask for mangling, and I fear murdering your THERON and ASPASIO. If you think my two sermons will do for the public,...have nothing to comfort me but this, that the Lord chuses the weak things of this world to confound the strong, and things that are not, to bring to nought... | |
 | Andrew Fuller - 1825 - 480 pages
...numbers amongst those who were unknown, and consequently unnoticed, by historians. God hath chosen the things that are not to bring to nought the things that are. Let a church history of our own times be written on the principles of that of MOSHEIM, and the great... | |
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Lord chooses the weak things of this world to confound the strong, and things that are not, to bring to nought the things that are. 
