| George Lyon - Sermons, English - 1794 - 424 pages
...incomprehenfible operation : " The " wind," fays he, " bloweth where it lifteth, and thou " hearcft the found thereof, but canft not tell whence " it...whither it goeth : fo is every one " that is born of the Spirit." But we muft not therefore deny the reality of this operation. We muft not deny that .God... | |
| Thomas Wilson - Sermons, English - 1796 - 484 pages
...certain, though invifible effe&s. JOHN iii. 7, :•.. Marvel not that I faid unto thee, Ye mud be born again. The wind bloweth where it lifteth, and thou...thereof, but canft not tell whence it cometh, and whither it jotth : So is every one that is born of the Spirit. tte SERMON I, XXXII. The Banger of living, like... | |
| Ralph Erskine - Sermons - 1796 - 738 pages
...'tis bail, And bound to keep me without fail. 8 bloweth where it lifteth, and thou beared the (bund thereof, but canft not tell whence it cometh, and whither it goeth: fo is every one that is born of the Spirit. ti Chron. xxix 14. Anil David Paid, — But who am I. and what is my people, that we (hould... | |
| William Huntington - Arminianism - 1797 - 598 pages
...againft the poor foul in this labour and travail. The wind bloweth-where it lifteth, and thou hear eft the found thereof, but canft not tell -whence it cometh and whither it goetb ; fo is every one horn of the Spirit. When this myftical birth is to be produced, the clouds... | |
| Ebenezer Erskine - Sermons - 1798 - 614 pages
...compares the operation of the Spi* rit unto the indifcernible motion of the air or wind, John iii. 8. " The wind bloweth where it lifteth, and thou heareft...thereof, but canft not tell whence it cometh, and whither ft goeth : fo is every one that is born of the Spirit." zdlyt Let us take a view of the excellency... | |
| Ebenezer Erskine - Sermons - 1798 - 630 pages
...• Cant. iv. 16. 11 Awake, O north wind, and come, thou fouth, blow upon my garden." John iii. 8. " The wind bloweth where it lifteth, and thou heareft the found thereof, but can ft not tell whence it cometh, and whither it goeth." When this wind filleth the fails of the aflections,... | |
| John Flavel - 1799 - 626 pages
...8. " That which " is born of the flelh is flefh, and that which is born of the Spirit " is fpirit : the wind bloweth where it lifteth, and thou heareft...found thereof, but canft not tell whence it cometh, nor " whither it goeth ; fo is every one that is born of the Spirit." Believers are the birth or offspring... | |
| John Graham (Rector of St. Saviour, York.) - Theology, Doctrinal - 1800 - 134 pages
...refpedting the production of a natural phenomenon,the effects of which oblige all to admit its exiftence. *' The wind bloweth where it lifteth, and thou heareft...whither it goeth: fo is every one that is born of. the Spirit." * Befides, our Lord, by aflcing Nicodemus, art thou a mafter in Ifrael and knoweft not... | |
| John Witherspoon, John Rodgers - Presbyterian Church - 1800 - 620 pages
...in this precife meaning, our Saviour fays, " The wind bloweth where it " lifteth, and thou heareit the found thereof, but canft not " tell whence it...whither it goeth : fo is every " one that is born of the Spirit."f Sometimes it pleafeth God to fnatch finners from the very brink of the pit, to raife... | |
| 1803 - 498 pages
...inftuence ; " The wind bloweth where it lifteth, and thou beareft the found thereof, but can ft not tell whence it cometh, and whither it goeth ; fo is every one that is born of the fpiiit." Janes. If the fpirit moves in a fovereign manner, how is it pof1'ble for us to obtain... | |
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