 | 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Ebenezer Porter - 1835 - 414 pages
...from their ministry. Thus, to use the language of the apostle, '' 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 ; that no flesh should glory in his presence, — that, according... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Joseph Thompson - 1893 - 300 pages
...degree with religion. Indeed, the great men of all lands have become such by means of the natural or of the spiritual possessions which Heaven has bestowed...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,... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Arthur Charles Hervey, Charles Hole - Bible - 1895 - 264 pages
...repeated again and again as the world rolls on in its course, 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 . . . that no flesh should glory in His presence." The frequently... | |
 | Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. General Assembly - Presbyterianism - 1897 - 406 pages
...men after the flesh, not many mighty, not many noble; but that God had chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise, and the weak things of the world to confound the mighty, and base things of the world, and things that were despised had God chosen; yea, and things which were... | |
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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... 
