...know not whether I baptized any other. For Christ sent me not to baptize, but to preach the gospel ; not with wisdom of words, lest the cross of Christ should be made of none effect. For the preaching of the cross is to them that perish, foolishness, but unto us~ which are saved it...

...discountenance and correct. He begins by informing them, that " Christ had sent him to preach the gospel — not with wisdom of words, lest the cross of Christ should be made of none effect." He tells them that the cross of Christ was the instrument wherein God had chosen to display his power...

...not trust to it as an effectual instrument of conversion ; for Christ sent him to preach the Gospel, not with wisdom of words, lest the cross of Christ should be made of none effect.^ But he laboured, with great plainness of speech,^ not only to satisfy men's reason, but * 1 Cor. i....

...words, nor of nirn sought we glory." " For Christ sent me not to baptize, but to preach the gospel ; not with wisdom of words, lest the cross of Christ should be made of none effect. For ilic preaching of the Trosg is to them that persih foolishnp««, hut unto us which are saved it...

...not whether I baptized any other. 17 For Christ sent me not to baptize, but to preach the gospel ; not with wisdom of words, lest the cross of Christ should be made of none effect. 18 For the preaching of the cross is to them that peris.h, foolishness ; but unto us which are saved,...

...direct opposition to the gospel, a work of the law. Paul says Christ sent me, — to preach the gospel : not with wisdom of words, lest the cross of Christ should be made of none effect. (1 Cor. i. 17.) Now this wisdom of words is — human acquirements, with which the gospel has nothing...

...they, so we preach, and so ye believed"." " Christ sent me not to baptize, but to preach the Gospel: not with wisdom of words, lest the cross of Christ should be made of none effect0." " God hath chosen the foolish things of the world, to confound the wise ; and God hath chosen...

...shalt summon me into that pulpit ; give me to see in what sense I am to understand those words of the Apostle, ' not with wisdom of words, lest the cross...without hesitation, and pursue invariably. Amen." "Augusts, 1791. " It is my plan to consider the classics under two general heads ; first, as serving...

...wholly otherwise : " Jesus Christ," he is able to say with St. Paul, " sent me to preach the gospel, not with wisdom of words, lest the cross of Christ should be made of none effect. For the preaching of the cross is, to them that perish, foolishness: but unto us, which are saved,...

...acquirements, in order that he might magnify the grace of his Lord: " Christ sent me to preach the gospel, not with wisdom of words, lest the cross of Christ should be made of none effect." 1 Cor. i. 17. " I came to you—not with excellency of speech, or of wisdom." " We have received, not...