 | Samuel Stennett - Baptists - 1801 - 278 pages
...difcourfing on this very fubjecl to Nicodemus, The wind bloweth where it lifleth, and thou hearejl the found thereof, but canft not tell -whence it cometh, and whither it goeth ; fo is every one that is horn of the, Spirit * . And to much the fame purpofe is what the blind man in the gofpel faid to the... | |
 | John Evans - Christian life - 1801 - 404 pages
...The wind bloweth where it lilteth, and thou heareil the found thereof ; but canft not tell whence. •whence it cometh, and whither it goeth : fo is every one that is born of the Spirit." He a£ts really and powerfully upon the minds of men, and they are conTcious of the good... | |
 | Eli Forbes - Massachusetts - 1801 - 332 pages
...perceived from what quarter it comes, or to what pcint it tends ; for, as the wind bloweth when and where it lifteth, and thou heareft the found thereof, but canft not tell from whence it cometh nor whither it goeth, fa it is with fome,.if not with. every one,. who is born... | |
 | John Witherspoon, John Rodgers - Presbyterian Church - 1802 - 636 pages
...and manner of their reformation. To this purpofe, and in this precife meaning, our Saviour fays, " The wind bloweth " where it lifteth, and thou heareft...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... | |
 | John Witherspoon, John Rodgers - Presbyterian Church - 1802 - 600 pages
...in this precife meaning, our Saviour fays, " The wind bloweth " where it lifteth, and thou hearell the found thereof, but " canft not tell whence it...whither it goeth : " fo is every one that is born of the Spirit."-)Sometimes it pleafeth God to fnatch finners from the very brink of the pit, to raife... | |
 | William Gilpin - Sermons - 1803 - 484 pages
...inconceivable. A queftion of this kind was once brought to our Saviour, and he anfvvered it thus : The wind bloweth where it lifteth, and thou heareft...found thereof, but canft not tell 'whence it cometh, nor whither it goeth : fa is every one who is born of the ibe Spirit. As if he had faid, the Spirit... | |
 | Laurence Sterne - English literature - 1803 - 474 pages
...fcrupulous inquiries into operations of this kind, by comparing them to the wind, " which bloweth were it lifteth; and thou " heareft the found thereof, but canft not " tell whence it cometh, or whither it goeth : " — fo is every one that is born of the fpirit." -v-Let humble gratitude acknowledge... | |
 | Theology - 1803 - 512 pages
...fubject of regeneration, he bids him hear the blowing wind for an illuftration of the doclrine : " The wind " bloweth where it lifteth, and thou heareft the found there"•of, but canfl not tell whence it cometh, nor whither it " goeth ; fo is every one that is born of the Spirit."... | |
 | Congregational churches - 1804 - 828 pages
...operations of the Holy Spirit on the heart are fecret operations, perceived only by their effects. " The wind bloweth where it lifteth, and thou heareft...it cometh, and whither it goeth ; fo is every one who is born of the Spirit." The movement of the Spirit of God upon the face of the waters was perceived... | |
 | Bible - 1804 - 300 pages
...the LordJhould be revealed. Accordingly Jefus faid to Nicodemus, The wind bloweth where it liftcth, and thou heareft the found thereof, but canft not tell whence it comet ht and whither it goeth : fo is every one that is born ef the Spirit. No man can account for... | |
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The wind bloweth where it lifteth, and thou heareft the found thereof, but canft not tell whence it cometh, and whither it goeth ; fo is every one that is born of the Spirit. 
