| Staurophilus (pseud.) - 1771 - 188 pages
...clearly demonftrate the neceffity of baptifm for falvation than thefe words ? Except a man, (fays he), be born of water and the Spirit, he cannot enter the kingdom of God* This is ftill further confirmed, in the third place, by St Peter, who compares baptifm to the ark of... | |
| John Wesley - Methodism - 1810 - 452 pages
...not care to think of at all, till, one day, reading in the third chapter of St. John's Gospel, Except a man be born of water and the Spirit, he cannot enter the kingdom of God: the words struck me to the heart : I began to read over again, with all attention, what was written... | |
| New Church gen. confer - 1862 - 606 pages
...heavenly-minded, and being born again. Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God ; except a man be born of water and the Spirit, he cannot enter the kingdom of God. That is the land that God meant His church to see, when He bade Abraham get out of his country, and... | |
| John Brown - Baptism - 1817 - 158 pages
...and once in the compositioa of the word denoting the action. Says the Saviour, John 3. 5, " Unless a man be born of water and the spirit, he cannot enter the kingdom of God ;" gr,oudunatat eiselthein eis teen basileian ton Theou. Here the preposition is again twice used,... | |
| sir Adam Gordon (bart.) - 1819 - 408 pages
...(or divine favour) and inheritors of the kingdom of heaven : for our Saviour assures us, that except a man be born of water and the Spirit, he cannot enter the kingdom of God. Respecting persons baptized at riper years, or those who have fallen from grace, God, in his mercy... | |
| Daniel Waterland - 1823 - 750 pages
...in you, seeming to be equivalent, in the extent of its application, to his other declaration, Except a man be born of water and the Spirit, he cannot enter the kingdom of heaven. Our author's solution of this difficulty, so far as relates to the inference thus erroneously... | |
| Daniel Waterland, William Van Mildert - Apologetics - 1823 - 374 pages
...in you, seeming to be equivalent, in the extent of its application, to his other declaration, Except a man be born of water and the Spirit, he cannot enter the kingdom of heaven. Our author's solution of this difficulty, so far as relates to the inference thus erroneously... | |
| 1843 - 1028 pages
...baptized with the Spirit, and thus born of water, and of the Spirit. The declaration that " unless one be born of water and the Spirit, he cannot enter the kingdom of God," implies certainly that some were thus born — that Nicodemus, to whom the declaration was made, and... | |
| James Bassnett Mills - Dissenters - 1831 - 434 pages
...eateth me, shall live by me."* Thus, as He had declared in the case of the other Sacrament, " Except a man be born of water and the Spirit, he cannot enter the Kingdom of Heaven,"t in like manner, He has affirmed of this Sacrament, that " Except we eat Hie Flesh of the... | |
| Noah Worcester - Sin - 1833 - 344 pages
...which demand consideration. " Except a man be born again he cannot see the kingdom of God." " Except a man be born of water and the spirit, he cannot enter the kingdom of God." John iii. 3, 5.. I have not a doubt of the truth of these declarations; but whether they have in general been... | |
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