...the obedience of faith.' Hence is that direction which flesh and blood will never comply withal, ' If any man among you seemeth to be wise in this world, let him become a fool, that he may be wise;' 1 Cor. iii. 18. Unless men renounce their carnal wisdom in all its principles, effects, and operations,...

...and, in a word, like a devil, a heretic, an infidel, and a Turk : as Paul saith, 1 Cor. iii. 18, " If any man among you seemeth to be wise in this world, let him become a fool that he may be wise." This truth, I say, stands firm. For such is the will that is settled in heaven, that God has determined...

...defile the temple of God, him shall God destroy ; for the temple of God is holy, which temple ye are. Let no man deceive himself. If any man among you seemeth...knoweth the thoughts of the wise, that they are vain. Therefore let no man glory in men 5 for all things are yours, whether Paul, or Apollos, or Cephas,...

...saying, I am Christ ; and the time draweth near : go ye not therefore after them. 1 COR. iii. 18 : Let no man deceive himself. If any man among you seemeth...world, let him become a fool, that he may be wise. do. vi. 9 : Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God ? Be not deceived...

...us, any more than we have the knowledge of them before Ihey are revealed from Heaven. Therefore, " let no man deceive himself. If any man among you seemeth...wise. For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God." We arc too little disposed to keep in remembrance our own ignorance and folly. Thus the...

...the words of the divinely inspired apostle, when treating of this very subject, are appropriate : " Let no man deceive himself; if any man among you seemeth...wise ; for the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God." Decidedly hostile to every thing calculated '' to supersede the sacred oracles," '' to rival...

...us, any more than we have the knowledge of them before they are revealed from Heaven. Therefore, " let no man deCeive himself. If any man among you seemeth...wise. For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God." We are too4 little disposed to keep in remembrance our own ignorance and folly. Thus the...

...2. " For, not he that commendeth himself is approved,-but whom the Lord commendeth." 2 Cor. x. 18. " Let no man deceive himself. If any man among you seemeth...that he may be wise. For the wisdom of this world is foolislmess with God : for it is written, He taketh the wise in their own craftiness. And again, The...

...this world, let him become a fool, that he may be wise. For the wisdom of this world is foolislmess with God : for it is written, He taketh the wise in...knoweth the thoughts of the wise, that they are vain." 1 Cor. iii. 18 — 20. We have thus exhibited, at some length, another part of the character assumed...

...complete and eternal redemption.' XCVIII. SELF-ABASEMENT ESSENTIAL TO SPIRITUAL WISDOM. 1 COR. iii. 18. Let no man deceive himself: if any man among you seemeth...world, let him become a fool, that he may be wise. THE heart, said the Prophet, is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked. And there is a...