 | James Foster - 1743 - 416 pages
...profoundly myfterious in it as you feem to imagine, but may be explain'd by a familiar inJohn iii. ftance.] The wind bloweth where it lifteth, and thou heareft the found thereof, but canft not tell whence it cometh, and whither it goeth : So is every one that is born of the Spirit.... | |
 | William Whiston - Liturgics - 1753 - 380 pages
...that which is born of the Spirit, is Spirit. Marvel not that I faid unto thee, Ye muft be born again. The wind bloweth where it lifteth, and thou heareft the found thereof ; but canft not tell whence it cometh, and whither it goeth : fo is every one that is born of the Spirit.... | |
 | John Tillotson - Sermons, English - 1757 - 496 pages
...exprefly told us, that the Spirit of GOD works irf fnen after an imperceptible manner, John iii. 8. " The wind bloweth where it lifteth, " and thou heareft the found thereof, but canft not "tell SERM. ** tell whence it cometh, and whether it gocth : ifc is every one that is born... | |
 | John Witherspoon, William Shenstone - Grace (Theology) - 1765 - 298 pages
...and manner of their reformation. To this purpofe, and in this precife meaning, our Saviour fays, " The wind bloweth where it " lifteth, and thou heareft the found thereof, " but canft not tell whence it cometh, and whr" ther it goeth : fo is every one that is born of " the Spirit... | |
 | Laurence Sterne - 1769 - 332 pages
...operations of this kind, by comparing them to the wind, which bloweth -when it lifteth ; and tbou hearejl the found thereof, but can/I not tell whence it cometh, or whither it goetb : — -fo is every one that is born of the Spirit. — Let humble gratitude acknowlege the effect,... | |
 | William Farington - Sermons, English - 1769 - 380 pages
...that which is born of the fpirit is fpirit. Marvel not that I faid unto thee, ye muft he hat n again. The wind bloweth where it lifteth, and thou heareft the found thereof, but canft not tell whence it cometh, and 'whither it goeth : fo is every one that is born of the fpirit.... | |
 | John Flavel - Presbyterian Church - 1770 - 518 pages
...Firft, The fcripture fpeaks of it as a thing of great difficulty to be conceived by man, John iii. 8. " The wind bloweth where " it lifteth, and thou heareft the found thereof, but canft not " tell whence it coroeth, and whither it goeth : So is every one " that is born of the Spirit."... | |
 | George Whitefield - Presbyterian Church - 1772 - 452 pages
...doctrine; for, as our Idefled LORD obferved to Nicodemus, when he was difcourfing on this very fubject, " The wind bloweth where it lifteth, and thou heareft the found thereof, but knoweft not whence it cometh, and whither it goeth i" and if we are told of natural things, and we... | |
 | Jakob Böhme - Christian life - 1775 - 486 pages
...that which is born oj the Spirit, is Spirit, Marvel not that I faid unto thee, Ye mujl be born avain. The Wind bloweth where it lifteth, and thou heareft...found thereof, but can/I not tell whence it cometh, and whilher it goetli : So it every one that is born of the Spirit. MATT. xvi. 26.. What is a Man profited,... | |
 | Isaac Mann (bp. of Cork and Ross) - 1783 - 456 pages
...baptifm, and effcfled by the holy Spiut. N 3 ' not. not that I faid unto thec, Ye muft be born again. 8 The wind bloweth where it lifteth, and thou heareft the found thereof; but canft not tell whence it cometh and whither it goeth : fo is every one that is born of 9 the Spirit... | |
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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. 
