 | John Henry Hopkins - 1856 - 436 pages
...paradise, was an allowance of a changeable discipline in the law established by Himself, that Except a man be born of water and the Spirit, he cannot enter the kingdom of God. Baptism was the RULE ; the case of the penitent thief, like that of the martyrs, was an EXCEPTION,... | |
 | Daniel Waterland, William Van Mildert - Theology - 1856 - 586 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... | |
 | Mary Henley, John Henley - Methodist Church - 1856 - 330 pages
...in the vineyard: there seemed to be nothing wanting but energy. At half-past two, at Lynch, 'Except a man be born of water and the Spirit, he cannot enter the kingdom of heaven.' Walked to Dunster, and at six preached from Zee. xii., 8. Met the class after service. Bless... | |
 | Thomas Legh Claughton (bp. of St. Albans.) - 1857 - 284 pages
...spiritual discernment (1 Cor. ii. 11). T. In what words did our Lord further explain it ? S, " Except a man be born of water and the Spirit, he cannot enter the kingdom of God." T. What does our Church expressly ground upon these words ? S. The necessity of Baptism. (See Baptismal... | |
 | Thomas Hughes Milner - 1857 - 974 pages
...flesh, but of the Spirit. Therefore said Jesus to Nicodemus, ' Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born of water and the Spirit, he cannot enter the kingdom of God.' ' Marvel not that I said unto thee, ye must be born again !' Here the divine Teacher associates birth... | |
 | Churches of Christ - 1863 - 876 pages
...— not that sinners are begotten again in baptism— but that, according to the Redeemer, " unless a man be born of water and the Spirit, he cannot enter the kingdom of heaven," atid according to Paul, when thus born he is " saved by the washing [Ok. bath] of regeneration... | |
 | Henry Smith - 1866 - 456 pages
...Holy Ghost proceedeth from the Father and the Son : and in the name of the Holy Ghost; for, except a man be born of water and the Spirit, he cannot enter the kingdom of God. (John iii. 5.) When our Saviour offered to wash Peter's feet, he imagined it to be a needless work, for, Thou shalt... | |
 | Henry Smith, Thomas Fuller - Sermons, English - 1866 - 456 pages
...Holy Ghost proceedeth from the Father and the Son : and in the name of the Holy Ghost ; for, except a man be born of water and the Spirit, he cannot enter the kingdom of God. (John iii. 5.) When our Saviour offered to wash Peter's feet, he imagined it to be a needless work, for, Thou shalt... | |
 | George Washington Bethune - Heidelberger Katechismus - 1866 - 540 pages
...recipient is washed. c. Our Lord's words to Nicodemus are sometimes quoted in this connection : " Except a man be born of water and the Spirit, he cannot enter the kingdom of God." There are good doubts whether baptism (outward) is here referred to at all ; but assuming that it is,... | |
 | Churches of Christ - 1867 - 452 pages
...the two together 246 ON THE DESIGN OF BAPTISM. in his discourse to Nicodemus, John ffi. 6, " Except a man be born of water and the Spirit, he cannot enter the kingdom of Ood." 1 John v. 1, " begotten of God." See chap. ii. v. 29. In the common version, 1 John ii. 29, reads... | |
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Except a man be born of water and the Spirit, he cannot enter the Kingdom of God. 
