| 1819 - 788 pages
...Committee; but that their operations should be like those of the Almighty Agent whose aid we need : "The wind bloweth where it listeth, and thou nearest the sound thereof; but canst not tell whence it cometh, nor whither it goeth." 1 shall be glad, Sir, to hear from, or meet any person or... | |
| Charles Robert Maturin - 1819 - 500 pages
...practical test along with it, or does it not ? Mark the provident generality of the language : " the wind bloweth where it listeth, and thou nearest the sound thereof, but canst not tell whence it cometh, or whither it goeth; so is every one that is born of God/' While the reality of this... | |
| 1828 - 818 pages
...answer to Nicodemus upon the subject is at once satisfactory and conclusive : " The wind," says he, " bloweth where it listeth, and thou nearest the sound thereof, but canst not tell whence it cometh, nor whither it goeth : so is every one that is born of the Spirit." The Spirit of... | |
| Nicholas Baylies - 1820 - 228 pages
...which is born of the spirit is spirit. Marvel not that I said unto thee, ye must be born again. The wind bloweth where it listeth, and thou nearest the sound thereof, but canst not tell whence it cometh, and whether it goeth : so is every one that is born of the spirit." „ I shall not... | |
| 1820 - 562 pages
...Committee; but that their operations should be like those of the Al-, mighty Agent whose aid we need: " The wind bloweth where it listeth, and thou nearest the sound thereof; but canst not tell whence it cometh, nor whither it goeth." I shall be glad, Sir, to hear from, or meet any person or... | |
| Samuel F. Hussey - 1821 - 256 pages
...world ; but it will be aAer the manner in which our Saviour described it to Nicoderous ; John iii. 8. " The wind bloweth where it listeth, and thou nearest the sound thereof, but canst not tell whence it cometh, nor whither it goeth, so is every one that is born ot' the Spirit." I am apprehensive... | |
| 1821 - 392 pages
...respecting the mode of regeneration, that it is entirely unknown to those who experience it. " The wind bloweth where it listeth, and thou nearest the sound thereof, but canst not tell whence it cometh and whither it goeth." This declaration was addressed to Nicodemus, in reply to his... | |
| 1822 - 412 pages
...assures us, that we can only discover the operations of grace by its effects. " The wind," sa/s he, "bloweth where it listeth, and thou nearest the sound thereof, but canst not tell whence it cometh, nor whither it goeth ; 10 is every one that it born of the Spirit." But, my dear... | |
| E. J. Burrow - 1822 - 606 pages
...whether they be of God ; because many false prophets are gone out into the world. John iii. 8. The wiud bloweth where it listeth, and thou nearest the sound thereof, but canst not tell whence it cometh, nor whither it goeth; so is every one that is born of the Spirit. Luke vi. 35. But... | |
| Grace Kennedy - 1823 - 296 pages
...that ask him.' Then, as to the manner of the operation of the Spirit of God, Christ says again, ' The wind bloweth where it listeth, and thou nearest the sound thereof, but canst not tell whence it cometh, and whither it goeth ; so is every one that is born of the Spirit.' The effects of... | |
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