 | 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 - 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,... | |
 | William Wake - 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,... | |
 | Jeremy Taylor (bp. of Down and Connor.) - 1828 - 560 pages
...affirmative of a nature, those of mystery ; these speak properly, they are figurative : such as this ; " Unless a man be born of water and the Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of heaven." The proposition is sacramental, mystical, and figurative: "Go and baptize,"... | |
 | Jeremy Taylor (bp. of Down and Connor.) - 1828 - 554 pages
...and 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 of Eusebius Emissenus; and St Austin' tells,... | |
 | 1828 - 852 pages
...necessity 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... | |
 | John Gregory Pike - 1828 - 300 pages
...without this, you cannot be saved. The words of Christ are, ' Verily, Verily, I say unto thee, except a man be born of water and the Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God." He does not say, Except a man be virtuous in his habits, or moral in his life,... | |
 | Richard Warner - 1828 - 476 pages
...How can a man be born " when he is old ?" " Jesus answered, Ve" rily, 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... | |
 | Church of England, Thomas Newland - 1829 - 696 pages
...this assertion, our Saviour explained himself further: " Verily, verily, I say unto thee, ex" cept a man be born of water and the Spirit, " he cannot enter into the kingdom of God." The meaning of which seems to be this, that except a man were renewed by an ablution,... | |
 | 1831 - 456 pages
...defileth can enter into the holy city. — Rev. xxi. 27. Hence the necessity of being renewed ; for except a man be born of water and the spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God. — John iii. 5 Are ye (hen renewed in the spirit of your minds ? If not, ye are... | |
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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. 
