 | Church of England articles - 1821 - 234 pages
...heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it? Jer. xvii. 9. Having the understanding darkened, being alienated from the life...in them, because of the blindness of their heart. Ephes. iv. 18. If any man among you seemeth to be wise in this world, let him become a fool, that he... | |
 | William Romaine - 1821 - 286 pages
...of the understanding•. St. Paul's account of the Gentiles is this, (Eph. iv. 18). " they had the understanding darkened, being " alienated from the...them, because of the blindness of their " heart." Sin darkened the understanding and alienated them from the life of God, by separating them from that... | |
 | William Romaine - 1821 - 282 pages
...is no exception, the prophet knew not one ; neither did the apostle — " All the Gen" tiles had the understanding darkened, being alienated " from the...that is in, " them, because of the blindness of their hearts." To man in this state of ignorance what could be so suitable as a prophet ? And what prophet... | |
 | William Harris - 1821 - 184 pages
...fallen Adam inherit a depraved nature, — are spiritually dead, " being alienated from the life of God, through the ignorance that is in them because of the blindness of their hearts.*" While the body is depraved, by a destitution of original beauty, vigour, and aptitude for... | |
 | Joseph Lathrop - 1821 - 406 pages
...servitude extends to all their powers — their reason is enslaved. Their understanding is darkened through the ignorance that is in them, because of the blindness of their hearts. They have the faculty of reason ; but the exercise of it is perverted. They are wise to do... | |
 | 1821 - 494 pages
...into judgment. They are without God, atheists in the world, oeing " alienated from the life of God, through the ignorance that is in them, because of the blindness of their hearts." And to heighten the colouring of this frightful picture, they are described as being not more... | |
 | Brian Hill - 1822 - 454 pages
...beholding an almost universal indifference to serious things. The most, as St. Paul says, have, " the understanding darkened, being alienated from the life...in them, because of the blindness of their heart."* To prevent, however, this blindness from being fatal, they are exhorted by the Ministry of the Word... | |
 | Edward John Burrow - 1822 - 594 pages
...changed into the same image from glory to glory as by the Spirit of the Lord. Ephes. iv. 18. Having the understanding darkened, being alienated from the life...in them, because of the blindness of their heart. Acts xxvi. 18. To open their eyes, and to turn them from darkness to light, and from the power of Satan... | |
 | 1826 - 918 pages
...sorrows, they grope, at a venture, after the path of life ; but grope, alas ! in vain ; " having the understanding darkened ; being alienated from the...in them, because of the blindness of their heart." (Eph. iv. 18.) Of this intellectual darkness the inseparable companion is an erring conscience. Although... | |
 | David Harrowar - 1822 - 440 pages
...to the interesting science of divinity. In their case, that apostolical saying is true, " Having the understanding darkened, being alienated from 'the...that is in them, because of the blindness of their hearts." Eph. 4. 18. As they do not love to retain God in their knowledge, they rack their minds to... | |
| |
Having the understanding darkened, being alienated from the life of God through the ignorance that is in them, because of the blindness of their heart: 19 Who being past feeling have given themselves over unto lasciviousness, to work all uncleanness with... 
