 | 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... | |
 | 1842
...regard as the work of the Holy Ghost, alike beyond human power to produce it and to control it. "The wind bloweth where it listeth, and thou nearest the...canst not tell whence it cometh or whither it goeth ; " and such is the work of the Spirit, alike in an individual conversion or in a revival of religion.... | |
 | 1804 - 476 pages
...thee, We speak that we do know, and testify that we have seen ; and ye receive not our witness. 12 If I have told you earthly things, and ye believe not,...shall ye believe if I tell you of heavenly things ? 13 And no man hath ascended up to heaven, but he that came down from heaven, even the Son of man,... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Timothy Kenrick - Bible - 1807 - 648 pages
...Jews themselves, when speaking of proselytes to their religion ; he said to him, verse twelfth, " If I have told you earthly things, and ye believe not,...shall ye believe if I tell you of heavenly things?" That is, as already explained, if, when I employ phrases which yourselves use, when speaking of your... | |
 | Thomas Scott - Religion - 1808 - 586 pages
...the Scriptures.*" — To Nicodemus who was astonished at his discourse on regeneration, he said, " If I have told " you earthly things, and ye believe not,...shall " ye believe, if I tell you of heavenly things ? " And no man hath ascended up to heaven, but he " that came down from heaven, even the Son of "man... | |
 | Jonathan Edwards - Congregational churches - 1808 - 516 pages
...looked upon as perfectly incredible, and absurd to be supposed ? 3. From that text, John iii. 12, " If I have told you earthly things, and ye believe not,...shall ye believe, if I tell you of heavenly things ?" several things are manifest concerning mysteries in religion. (1.) That there are mysteries in religion,... | |
 | Joseph Hall (bp. of Norwich.) - 1808 - 582 pages
...carnally minded and worldly wise, find no savour in our words, and believe not our witness. III. 12 If I have told you earthly things, and ye believe not,...shall ye believe, if I tell you of heavenly things i And if, while I have only discoursed to thee of these principles of Christianity, which both our... | |
 | Richard McNemar - Church polity - 1808 - 152 pages
...thee, ive speak that we. do know, and testify that -we have seen and ye receive not our -witness. If I have told you earthly things, and ye believe not,...shall ye believe, if I tell you of heavenly things ?" JOHN iii. " The natural man receiveth not the things ofthespirit of God, for they are foolishness... | |
 | William Paley - Sermons, English - 1808 - 402 pages
...degree arise from the nature of the human understanding itself. Our Saviour said to Nicodemus, " If I have told you earthly things, and ye believe not,...shall ye believe, if I tell you of heavenly things?" It is evident from the strain of this extraordinary conversation, that the disbelief, on the part of... | |
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... sound thereof, but canst not tell whence it cometh, and whither it goeth: so is every one that is born of the Spirit. 
