 The wind bloweth where it listeth, and thou nearest the sound thereof, but ' canst not tell whence it cometh or whither it goeth : so is every one that is born of the Spirit.  Poems - Pàgina 103per Louisa Anne Meredith - 1835 - 182 pàginesVisualització completa - Sobre aquest llibre
 | 1842
...alike beyond human power to produce it and to control it. "The wind bloweth where it listeth, and thou nearest the sound thereof, but 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.... | |
 | John Brewster - 1802 - 330 pàgines
...ordinary, but imperceptible influences of the spirit. " The ff wind bloweth where it listeth, and thou •" nearest the sound thereof, but canst not " tell whence it cometh, or whither it " goeth : so is every one who is born of the " spirit.—The wisdom which is from above " is first pure, then... | |
 | 1806 - 650 pàgines
...efficacy. In this view, our Lord observes, John iii. 8. The wind bloweth where it listeth, and thou nearest the sound thereof, but canst not tell whence it cometh, or whither it goeth: so is every one that is born of the spirit. There are, indeed, who greatly abuse this passage, thence... | |
 | David Low Dodge - 1808 - 156 pàgines
...the wind ; we see its effect and feel its influence ; " the wind bloweth where it listeth, and thou nearest the sound thereof, but canst not tell whence it cometh or whither it goeth : so is every one that is born of the Spirit." Lorenzo. If the Spirit moves in a sovereign manner,... | |
 | Laurence Sterne - 1814 - 270 pàgines
...operations of this kind, by comparing them to the wind, " which bloweth where " it listeth ; and thqu nearest the sound thereof, but <( canst not tell whence it cometh, or whither it " goeth ; — so is every one that is born of the spirit." — Let liumble gratitude acknowledge the effect,... | |
 | Charles Robert Maturin - 1819 - 500 pàgines
...not ? Mark the provident generality of the language : " the wind bloweth where it listeth, and thou nearest the sound thereof, but canst not tell whence it cometh, or whither it goeth; so is every one that is born of God/' While the reality of this divine influence is asserted as explicitly... | |
 | Nathanael Emmons - 1823 - 508 pàgines
...than to the nature of it. But our Saviour has told us, " The wind bloweth where it listeth, and thou nearest the sound thereof, but ' canst not tell whence it cometh or whither it goeth : so is every one that is born of the Spirit." It remains to show, III. That Christ is ready to receive... | |
 | William Carus Wilson - 1830
...you knew it not. What did our Lord say to Nicodemus ? " The wind bloweth where it listetb, and thou nearest the sound thereof, but canst not tell whence it Cometh, or whither it goeth : so is every one that is born of the Spirit." But we must also be careful Tuna we ask. Why do you... | |
 | 1826 - 688 pàgines
...flesh ; and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit. The wind bloweth where it listeth and thou nearest the sound thereof, but canst not tell whence it cometh or whither it goeth ; so is every one that is born of the Spirit. The gospel declares that if any man be in Christ he is... | |
 | 1871 - 592 pàgines
...down for the operation of the Spirit of God ; for, as " the wind bloweth where it listeth, and thou nearest the sound thereof, but canst not tell whence it cometh, or whither it goeth," so the Holy Spirit worketh how, when, and where He pleases. But we have observed, again and again,... | |
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