 | 1806 - 504 pages
...mean to speak of something invisible, and known only by its effects. " The wind bloweth," says he, " 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 similitude... | |
 | John Fletcher - 1804 - 444 pages
...not, however, at this; since there are many things above thy comprehension in the natural world. " The wind bloweth where it listeth, and thou nearest the sound thereof, but canst not tell, whence it comeih and whither it goeth ; so is every one that is born of the Spirit:" they prove the... | |
 | Jonathan Edwards - Congregational churches - 1808 - 564 pages
...judgment, and taught him knowledge, and shewed to him the way of understanding ?" John iii. 8. '' The wind bloweth where it listeth ; and thou nearest the sound thereof ; but canst not tell whence it cometli, and whither it goeth." We hear the sound, we perceive the effect, and from thence... | |
 | William Paley - Sermons, English - 1808 - 402 pages
...effects, and by those alone. And this I conceive to be that, which our Saviour said to Nicodemus. " The wind bloweth where it listeth, and thou nearest the sound thereof, but canst not tell whence it cometh and whither k goeth, so 4s every one that is born of the Spirit:" that is, thou perceivest... | |
 | James Macknight - Bible - 1809 - 544 pages
...in nature which you must acknowledge, though you cannot explain their causes. For instance, 8. The wind bloweth where it listeth, and thou nearest the sound thereof, but canst not tell -whence it cometh, (x-ttti ipprm from what repository it cometh) and whither it goeth; («x • •.*><;.... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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 - 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... | |
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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. 
