| William Mason - 1811 - 408 pages
...the Wilderness ? Or what more clearly describe the descent of the Holy Ghost, than these words, " the wind bloweth where it " listeth, and thou nearest the sound thereof, but canst " not tell whence it cometh and whither it goeth." For this was the very mode and manner in which the Holy Spirit... | |
| Thomas Boston - 1812 - 520 pages
...their answer from Eccl. xi. 5. * Thou knowest not the works of God, who makctli all, 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.' The works of God in nature are often beyond our reach to account... | |
| James Fishback - 1813 - 326 pages
...striking example of this, is found in the misapprehension of the expression of our Lord to Nicodemus: "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 3. 8. The... | |
| Edward Dorr Griffin - 1813 - 340 pages
...Except a man be born .of water and of the Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God. — 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." " Of His own... | |
| Laurence Sterne - 1814 - 270 pages
...operations of this kind, by comparing them to the wind, " which bloweth where " it listeth ; and thqu 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." — Let liumble gratitude acknowledge the effect,... | |
| Church of England - 1815 - 450 pages
...which is born of the Spirit is spirit. Mar* vel 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. Nicodemus answered... | |
| 1815 - 294 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. He came unto his... | |
| William Paley - 1815 - 552 pages
...which, in itf mode of action, is out of the reach / of our rules and calculations : " the wind blo^reth 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 effect of... | |
| Jacques Saurin, Robert Robinson - 1816 - 336 pages
...the doctrine of grace in his third sermon.] SERMON X. On Regeneration. 90CMMK 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. MY brethren, it... | |
| Wesleyan Methodists services - 1817 - 278 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. Nicodemus answered... | |
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