| John Sibbald Edison - 1839 - 280 páginas
...and cleanseth them;" or that "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." Or, if so disposed, he might very reasonably demand, ' What is that to... | |
| Richard De Charms - 1840 - 722 páginas
...growth in grace. For he says, " 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." By wind in this passage is evidently meant truth, because, in the original,... | |
| Thomas Finch (of Harlow.) - 1841 - 212 páginas
...Ixxii. 6. Isa. xliv. 3, 4. Jer. xxxi. 31. Ezek. xi. 19. Joel ii. 28. Zecli. xii. 6. the sound thereof, but canst not tell whence it cometh, or whither it goeth: so is every one that is born of the Spirit." We conclude, therefore, that our Lord's discourse to Nicodemus, gives... | |
| Philip Harwood - 1841 - 128 páginas
...by its greatest ideas. 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. The spirit of God in man works by law; but we cannot always, in our theories,... | |
| Nathanael Emmons - 1842 - 556 páginas
...regeneration, than to the nature of it. But our Saviour has told us, " The wind bloweth where it listeth, and thou nearest the sound thereof, but canst not...whence it cometh, or whither it goeth : so is every one that is born of the Spirit." It remains to show, III. That Christ is ready to receive and comfort all... | |
| Edward Bouverie Pusey - 1842 - 184 páginas
...not how. One may say reverently, firmly believing Whose work it is, " It bloweth where It listeth, and thou nearest the sound thereof, but canst not tell whence It cometh, or whither It goeth." But since this is so, there is the more anxiety as to individual cases, lest persons use wrongly what... | |
| John James - 1842 - 562 páginas
...striking word of instruction ! " 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 which is born of the Spirit.'' When, therefore, the coldhearted and the proud will not, or do not,... | |
| Nathanael Emmons - 1842 - 556 páginas
...our Saviour has told us, " The wind bloweth where it liste.th, 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." It remains -to show, III. That Christ is ready to receive and comfort... | |
| Nathanael Emmons - 1842 - 552 páginas
...But our Saviour has told us, " The wind blowelh 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." It remains to show, III. That Christ is ready to receive and comfort all... | |
| Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Board of Publication - 1843 - 158 páginas
...exquisitely beautiful ; ' The wind bloweth where it listeth, and ye hear the sound thereof; but know not whence it cometh or whither it goeth: so is every one that is born of the Spirit.' But while he thus admits its mysterious nature, he forcibly inculcates the necessity of regeneration. '... | |
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