 | Jeremy Taylor, Reginald Heber - Theology - 1822 - 554 pages
...contentions of an adversary. This only I shall observe, That the words of our blessed Lord, " Unless a man be born of water and the Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of heaven," cannot be expounded to the exclusion of children, but the same expositions will... | |
 | Jeremy Taylor, Reginald Heber - Theology - 1822 - 538 pages
...become the sons of God, if they be born with both the sacraments, or rites ; for it is written, ' Unless a man be born of water and the Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God.'" — The same also is the commentary ofr Eusebius Emissenus ; and St. Austin 3 tells,... | |
 | John Methuen Rogers - Incarnation - 1824 - 120 pages
...more weight, when taken in connection with that declaration of our Saviour, John, iii. 5, " except a man be born of water and the spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God." But how can a man be born of the spirit, by the administration of baptism, who, in... | |
 | Alexander Campbell - Baptism - 1824 - 428 pages
...pel-formed ;n baptism, when thbu 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." Here you must observe a most striking resemblance between the style of Basil and Chrysostom... | |
 | Thomas Secker - Sermons, English - 1825 - 486 pages
...were more abundantly poured forth, when the Gospel was published : from which we learn, that except a man be born of water and the Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of heaven H .- that by the spirit of adoption **, changing our nature and condition, we are... | |
 | John Edward Nassau Molesworth - Advent sermons - 1825 - 478 pages
...being " born again," natural birth, then Jesus explains himself more distinctly, by saying^ " except a man be born of water, and the Spirit he cannot enter into the kingdom of God." Upon the very face then of the text it may not unfairly be presumed, that our Saviour... | |
 | John Kaye - Church history - 1826 - 616 pages
...necessary to salvation. This opinion they grounded upon the words of Christ to Nicodemus — " Except a man be born of water and the spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God." In those days cases must frequently have occurred in which persons, suffering under... | |
 | William Wake - Catechisms, English - 1827 - 454 pages
...upon earth. PROOFS SUBJOINED.—"John, iii. 6. Jesus answered, Verily, verily, 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... | |
 | Joseph Twigger - 1827 - 302 pages
...Heathens/ 1 lv ' ". .. . '••'. : '..'*' ' } '-'< "-, '<''. "* -.''. into the gospel covenant: " Except a man be born of water and the Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God." Moreover, he held out everlasting salvation to such as believed and were baptized:... | |
 | John Wesley - Methodism - 1826 - 482 pages
...not care to think of at all, till, one day, reading in the third chapter of Sfe John's Gospel, Except a man be born of water and the Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God: the words struck me to the heart : I began to read over again, with all attention,... | |
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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. 
