| Nathanael Emmons - 1823 - 508 pages
...to the circumstances of regeneration, than to the nature of it. But our Saviour has told us, " 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 the Spirit." It remains to show,... | |
| Daniel Waterland - 1823 - 574 pages
...Spirit. They are mysterious, it is true, and the manner perhaps of operating unintelligible : for " 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 "." But notwithstanding... | |
| sir John Bayley (1st bart) - 1824 - 774 pages
..." 6. That which is born of the flesh is " flesh ; and that which is born of the " Spirit is Spirit. 7. Marvel not that I " said unto thee, Ye must be...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." Aßer vohich... | |
| John Locke - 1824 - 530 pages
...23. Col. i. 19. Except a man be born again (or from above), he cannot see the kingdom of God, &c. 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. — John iii.... | |
| William Carpenter - 1825 - 698 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 whither it goeth ; so is every one that is born of the Spirit, John iii. 5 —... | |
| Joseph John Gurney - 1825 - 588 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 whither it goeth — so is every one that is born of the Spirit : John iii, 3.... | |
| Thomas Williams (Calvinist preacher) - 1825 - 972 pages
...and Titus iii. 5.) Our Lord proceeds to illustrate this by the operation of the air or wind : " The : 46 Where their worm dieth not, and the fire is not quenched. 47 And if thine eye of whence it cometh, nor whither it goeth : so is every one that is born of the spirit." This verse is... | |
| 1847 - 660 pages
...prove it ; effects must demonstrate it ; that whilst the language of our Lord to Nicodemas (John iii. 8), " 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," shall in the case... | |
| 1826 - 688 pages
...answers, That which is born of the flesh is flesh ; and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit. 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 the Spirit. The gospel declares... | |
| George Townsend - 1827 - 722 pages
...is born of the Spirit is spirit. 9 Nicodemus answered and said unto him, How can these things be ? 8 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. 11 Verily, verily,... | |
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