 | Church of England - 1810 - 466 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. If After -which... | |
 | William Mason - English literature - 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 - Man (Theology) - 1811 - 472 pages
...first, Natural generation is a mysterious thing ; and so is spiritual generation, 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." The woik of the... | |
 | Thomas Boston - Theology, Doctrinal - 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... | |
 | Missions - 1812 - 572 pages
...attributed to no assignable cause but our Lord's principle in his conversation with Nicodemns, ' The wind bloweth where it listeth ; and thou nearest the sound thereof, but can't not tell whence it Cometh or whither it goeth, so is every one who is born of the Spirit ;' —from... | |
 | Missions - 1843 - 752 pages
...attempt to comprehend : — ' The wind blow, eth where it listeth, and thou hearest the sound thereof, but canst not tell whence it cometh, or whither it goeth ; so is every one that is born of the Spirit,' John iii. 8. But the reality and necessity of bis operation, not that... | |
 | Edward Dorr Griffin - Congregational churches - 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... | |
 | James Fishback - Apologetics - 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... | |
 | Laurence Sterne - English literature - 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...cometh, or whither it " goeth ; — so is every one that is born of the spirit." — Let liumble gratitude acknowledge the effect, unprompted by an idle... | |
 | James Wilson - Calvinism - 1814 - 342 pages
...mystery. As saith the Lord, " The wind " bloweth where it listeth, and thou hearest the sound " thereof, but canst not tell whence it cometh, or " whither it goeth ; so is every one that is born of the " spirit." The operations hereby declared incomprehensible, are not subjects of... | |
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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. 
