 | Derwent Coleridge - Sermons, English - 1839 - 544 pages
...instrument by which, practically speaking, it is to be obtained. " Verily, verily, I say unto you, Except a man be born of water and the Spirit, he cannot enter the kingdom of God." Now compare with this the strikingly analogous language of the text. " Verily, verily, I say unto you,... | |
 | 1881 - 510 pages
...was then forming in the world. It is not improbable that this was in His mind when He said, " Except a man be born of water and the Spirit, he cannot enter the kingdom of God" — the water being the means of entering the visible society, and the Spirit the means of entering... | |
 | Alexander McClelland - Bible - 1842 - 184 pages
...baptism was itself regeneration — founding their opinion on the words of Christ to Nicodemus, " except a man be born of water and the spirit he cannot enter the kingdom of God ;" and the language of Paul, Tit. iii. 5, " he saved us by the washing of regeneration and renewing... | |
 | Churches of Christ - 1843 - 444 pages
...consumed away in its socket. WILLIAM PALMER. London, January, 1843. SCRIPTURE EXPOSITION. " Except a man be born of water and the Spirit, he cannot enter the kingdom of God." There are three different kingdoms into which mankind either are or may be introduced. 1st kingdom... | |
 | William Meade - Baptism - 1846 - 164 pages
...our Lord, in allusion to this, and adopting the language in common use, said to Nicodemus, "except a man be born of water and the Spirit he cannot enter the kingdom of Heaven ;" and St. Paul also calls it, " the washing of regeneration," for the same reason ; these terms... | |
 | Education - 1847 - 508 pages
...shall be saved; but he that believeth not shall be damned."f " Verily, verily, I say unto thee, except a man be born of water and the Spirit, he cannot enter the kingdom of God."} Verily, verily, I say unto you, except 'ye eat the flesh of the son of man and drink his blood, ye... | |
 | 1850 - 716 pages
...is not carnal, but spiritual. "For JESUS answered him, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, that except a man be born of water, and the Spirit, he cannot enter the kingdom of GOD." Afterwards explaining the method of this birth, and distinguishing it entirely from the heavenly, He... | |
 | Churches of Christ - 1847 - 592 pages
...believeth and is baptized shall be saved ; he that believeth not shall be damned. John iii. 5 : Except a man be born of water and the Spirit, he cannot enter the kingdom of heaven. Acts xxii. 16 : And now, why tamest thou ? Arise and be baptized, and wash away thy sins. Gal.... | |
 | Edward Copleston (bp. of Llandaff.) - 1848 - 748 pages
...which I have taken upon this subject:—"Although our blessed Saviour saith to Nicodemus, That except a man be born of water and the Spirit, he cannot enter the kingdom of God, yet He doth not say, That every one that is so born shall inherit eternal life. It is true, all that... | |
 | John England - 1849 - 534 pages
...born when he was old. Our Lord then reiterates his first declaration with an addition, — ' Except a man be born of water and the spirit, he cannot enter the kingdom of God.' When men became converted to the Christian religion they were admitted by water baptism as members... | |
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Except a man be born of water and the Spirit, he cannot enter the Kingdom of God. 
