| David Simpson - 1774 - 258 pagine
...by a Similitude: " The Wind bloweth where it lifteth, and thou heareft the Sound thereof, but can'ft not tell whence it cometh, nor whither it goeth; So is every one that is born of the Spirit. Nicodemus, not underftanding what he aimed . «d at* faid unto him, " How... | |
| Robert Hawker - 1801 - 276 pagine
...discoverable only by its effects. We hear the sound thereof, and we see its operation, but me cannot tell whence it cometh nor whither it goeth.: so is every one that is born of the Spirit. It is from the sacred impressions left upon the rnind, we infer the call... | |
| John Brewster - 1802 - 330 pagine
...where it listeth, and thou •" nearest the sound thereof, but canst not " tell whence it cometh, or whither it " goeth : so is every one who is born of the " spirit.—The wisdom which is from above " is first pure, then peaceable, gentle and " easy to be... | |
| 1806 - 650 pagine
...born of the spirit, is spirit. The wind bloweth where it listcth, and thou hearest the sound thereof! but canst not tell whence it cometh, nor whither it goeth ; so is every one that is born of the spirit." Eph. ii. 8. For by .grace ye are saved through faith; and that, not of... | |
| Joseph Lathrop - 1809 - 418 pagine
...Our Lord says to Nicodemug, The wind bloweth where it listeth, and thou hearesf the sound thereof ; but canst not tell whence it cometh, nor whither it...goeth. So is every one, who is born of the Spirit. The nature of the change Itself is very plain. It is the turning of the heart from the love of sin,... | |
| Joseph Lathrop - 1809 - 418 pagine
...controlling our moral freedom. The wind bloweth where it listeth, and thou hearest the sound thereof; but canst not tell whence it cometh, nor whither it goeth. So is every one, who is torn of the Spirit. This is a great work, as it is effected by divine power. A soul habituated to vice,... | |
| William Gilpin - 1810 - 448 pagine
...bloweth where it lifteth, and thou heareft the found thereof ; but can/I not tell whence it cometh or whither it goeth. So is every one -who is born of the Spirit, \ END OF THE HINTS FOR SERMONS. CC 4 ANAL YS IS OF ST. PAUL'S EPISTLE TO THE ROMANS. nPWO great errors,... | |
| Thomas Tregenna Biddulph - 1810 - 490 pagine
...the thing signified. " The wind bloweth where it listeth, " and thou hearest the sound thereof; bat canst " not tell whence it cometh, nor whither it " goeth : so is every one that is born of the " Spirit." The effects in both cases are easily traced, but the mode of acting... | |
| William Paley, William Hamilton Reid - 1810 - 350 pagine
...bloweth where it listeth, and thou hearest the sound thereof, but canst not tell whence it cometh and whither it goeth, so is every one who is born of the spirit;" that is, thou perceivest an effect, but the cause which produces that effect operates' in its own way,... | |
| 1812 - 572 pagine
...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 this single, but mysteriously prolific thought, sprung up a totally new set of ideas, motives,... | |
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