 | 1765 - 500 pages
...fpirit. Marvel not that I laid untOi.thee, :Ye muft be born again. The wind bloweth where jfc::iijQgth, and thou heareft t-he found thereof; but canft not tell whence it cometh, and whither it goeth ; io is every one that is born of the Spirit. Nicodetnus anfwered and faid unto him, How can.... | |
 | John Flavel - Presbyterian Church - 1770 - 518 pages
...Firft, The fcripture fpeaks of it as a thing of great difficulty to be conceived by man, John iii. 8. " The wind bloweth where " it lifteth, and thou heareft...the found thereof, but canft not " tell whence it coroeth, and whither it goeth : So is every one " that is born of the Spirit." The original of winds... | |
 | Thomas Sherlock (bp. of London.) - Sermons, English - 1772 - 420 pages
...InHuence of the Spirit to the blowing of the Wind, 'Thou bearefl the Sound theteof> but canjl not tell whence it cometh, and whither it goeth; fo is every one that is born of the Spirit t How the new Birth and Regeneration is performed, He only can tell who performs it $ but... | |
 | George Whitefield - Presbyterian Church - 1772 - 452 pages
...doctrine; for, as our Idefled LORD obferved to Nicodemus, when he was difcourfing on this very fubject, " The wind bloweth where it lifteth, and thou heareft the found thereof, but knoweft not whence it cometh, and whither it goeth i" and if we are told of natural things, and we... | |
 | Jakob Böhme - Christian life - 1775 - 486 pages
...that which is born oj the Spirit, is Spirit, Marvel not that I faid unto thee, Ye mujl be born avain. The Wind bloweth where it lifteth, and thou heareft the found thereof, but can/I not tell whence it cometh, and whilher it goetli : So it every one that is born of the Spirit.... | |
 | Isaac Mann (bp. of Cork and Ross) - 1783 - 456 pages
...baptifm, and effcfled by the holy Spiut. N 3 ' not. not that I faid unto thec, Ye muft be born again. 8 The wind bloweth where it lifteth, and thou heareft...whither it goeth : fo is every one that is born of 9 the Spirit (c). Nieodemus anfwered and faid unto him, 10 How can thefe tilings be ? Jefus anfwered... | |
 | Tobias Smollett - English literature - 1787 - 510 pages
...was above his power to explain, to leflen his furprize at things being fo, that were fpiritual ? ' A, The wind bloweth where it lifteth, and thou heareft...thereof, but canft not tell whence it cometh, and whither it gor.th : fo is every one that is born of the Spirit. ' .^J. When Nicodemus continued to exprefs... | |
 | F. Wragg - 1788 - 154 pages
...own words, as a fufficient proof in favor of my argument. John Ch. 3. V. viii., " The wind bloweth t( where it lifteth, and thou heareft the " found thereof,...whither it goeth : fo is «•'- every one that is bora of the fpirit." To ttveuy.K 07T8 S'eXEi •ami", Jt, TJJV $uvi\v S. It would be a very happy cfrcumftance,... | |
 | John Clayton - Christian life - 1789 - 134 pages
...? In their faving effefts — not in their immediate caufe and the manner of their produdYion. «* The wind bloweth " where it lifteth, and thou heareft the found *« thereof, but canft ^tell whence it cometh, ^ - '. 2 , . . . *i : . ' ** and whither it goeth: fo is every one that * Pfalm... | |
 | Thomas Bowman - 1790 - 260 pages
...effefted without the affiftance of the Holy Spirit ? " Marvel not that I fay unto you, ye muft be born again; the wind bloweth where it lifteth, and thou...found thereof, but canft not tell whence it cometh, nor whither it goeth ? fo is every one that is born of the Spirit." How he was born, how the great... | |
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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. 
