 | William Bates - Presbyterianism - 1815 - 530 pages
...him above himself. This holy change is wrought by divine power. Our Saviour tells Nicodemus, " except a man be born of water and the spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God." The analogy of a new birth signifies, that it is entirely the work of the sanctifying... | |
 | Richard Warner - 1816 - 422 pages
...in a wa£ that was clearer to the Jew's understanding : " Verily, verily, I say unto thee, " except a man be born of water and the " spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of " GOD." As if he had said, " I did not speak of a new birth in a natural^ but in a spiritual,... | |
 | Richard Laurence - Baptism - 1816 - 196 pages
...commences thus; " Beloved, " ye hear in this Gospel the earpress words of " our Saviour Christ, that except a man be born " of water and the Spirit he cannot enter into " the kingdom of God. Whereby ye may per" ceive the great necessity of this sacrament, " where it may be... | |
 | William Butcher (rector of Ropsley.) - 1816 - 272 pages
...glorious kingdom hereafter: they will not cordially assent to Christ's words* when he says, " Except a man be born of water and the Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of heaven." Hence it is, that we see so many poor deluded persons " spending their strength... | |
 | Jean Calvin - Reformed Church - 1816 - 580 pages
...John, and which they suppose to represent a present regeneration as requisite to baptism: " Except a man be born of water and the Spirit, he cannot enter into (?) Ezek. M .. 20. xxiii. 37. (r) Eph. ii. 12. («) Matt. iii. 6. the kingdom of God." (f) See, they... | |
 | Emanuel Swedenborg - 1819 - 768 pages
...again, he cannot see the kingdom of God;" and further, " Verily, verily, (amen) I say unto thee, except a man be born of water and the spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God,- that which is born of the flesh is flesh, and that which is born of the spirit is... | |
 | sir Adam Gordon (bart.) - 1819 - 484 pages
...Holy Spirit we are regenerated at our baptism. This our blessed Lord declares (John, iii. 5), Except a man be born of water and the Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God. And it is most truly spoken by the Apostle (Titus, iii. 5), that not by works of righteousness... | |
 | Enoch Pond - Baptism - 1819 - 166 pages
...performed in baptism, when thou hearest our Lord himself say, Verily, verily I say unto you, except one be born of water and the Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God ?"f CHRYSOSTOM. " Our circumcision, I mean the grace of baptism, gives cure without... | |
 | George Fox - Society of Friends - 1821 - 420 pages
...prophesy, and the spirit of the prophets is subject to the prophets-, so there is unity ; and except a man be born of water and the spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom, though they may profess all the scripture of the saints, given forth from Genesis to the Revelations.... | |
 | Jesse Appleton - Christianity - 1822 - 448 pages
...natural birth, saith, " How can a man be born, w hen he is old ?" Jesus explains himself. " Except a man be born of water, and the Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God. That, which is born of the flesh, is flesh ; and that which is born of the Spirit,... | |
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Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born of water and the Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God. 
