 | Alexander Proudfit - Presbyterian Church - 1813 - 414 pages
...which thousands read and hear without any saving effect. — " The .wind bloweth where it listeth, we hear the sound thereof, but cannot tell whence it cometh, or whither it goelh, so is every one that is born of the spirit." But this doctrine however mysterious must be taught.... | |
 | Alexander Proudfit - Presbyterian Church - 1815 - 408 pages
...which thousands read and hear without any saving effect. — " The wind bloweth where it listeth, we hear the sound thereof, but cannot tell whence it cometh, or whither it goeth ; so is every one that is born of the Spirit." But this doctrine, however mysterious, must be... | |
 | James Murdock - Atonement - 1823 - 316 pages
...own salvation, is utterly beyond our power to comprehend. "The wind bloweth where it listeth; — we hear the sound thereof, but cannot tell whence it cometh or whither it goeth. So is every one that is born of the Spirit." This truth we must believe, that the hearts of... | |
 | Thomas Bowdler - Lord's Supper - 1824 - 156 pages
...we are surrounded by wonders past our comprehension. " The wind blows where it lists, c 2 51 and we hear the sound thereof, .but cannot tell whence it cometh, or whither it goeth." The face of the sky, the appearance of the heavenly bodies, have been matter of consideration... | |
 | Benjamin Beddome - Sermons - 1824 - 366 pages
...effected, but its nature and necessity are plain and obvious. " The wind bloweth where it listeth, and we hear the sound thereof, but cannot tell whence it cometh, or whither it goeth : so is every one that is born of the Spirit." We see and feel the effect, but know not the cause:... | |
 | 1825 - 270 pages
...emblem of the Holy Ghost, that invisible agent, whose effects are yet so discernible on every side. " We hear the sound thereof, but cannot tell whence it cometh, or whither it goethV The invocation of the Spirit on this occasion forcibly reminds us of that most true doctrine... | |
 | 1858 - 726 pages
...acts in various ways on the hearts of his people. Like the wind, " It hloweth where it listeth, and we hear the sound thereof, but cannot tell whence it cometh, or whither it goeth " (John iii. 8) ; but breathes the air of spiritual birth within them. Sometimes they are pricked... | |
 | Unitarianism - 1831 - 604 pages
...being able to tell when or how it operated upon us. For, ' as the wind bloweth where it listeth, and we hear the sound thereof, but cannot tell whence it cometh, or whither it goeth, so is every one that is born of the spirit.' 4. Our fourth and last objection to the common... | |
 | Jedediah Burchard, Charles Gamage Eastman - Evangelistic sermons - 1836 - 140 pages
...God Almighty — to say how his eternal spirit shall operate ! ! 'The windbloweth were itlisteth, we hear the sound thereof, but cannot tell whence it cometh? or whither it goeth.' Who would think of finding fault with the wind for not blowing just to suit him ? Here comes... | |
 | Charles Benjamin Tayler - Great Britain - 1837 - 226 pages
...be known in one that is born again of the Spirit, for as the wind bloweth where it listeth, and we hear the sound thereof, but cannot tell whence it cometh or whither it goeth, so is every one that is born of the Spirit. In like manner I would say, I cannot describe the... | |
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Spirit is real and effectual : but as " the wind bloweth where it listeth, and we hear the sound thereof, but cannot tell whence it cometh or whither it goeth, so is every one born of the Spirit. 
