...reply to the important query, " who hath made thee to differ ?" how sweetly may it be responded — " the wind bloweth where it listeth, thou hearest the sound thereof, but canst not tell whence it cometh, and whither it goeth : so is every one that is born of the Spirit !" But...

...storm, it glows in the sun, it burns in the fire, and it twinkles in every star. "The wind blovveth where it listeth ; thou hearest the sound thereof,...not tell whence it cometh, nor whither it goeth." Men, by perseverance and application, may learn much, and yet, in reality, know but little. The most...

...apprehend the orthodox doctrine of grace carries no such sense. We are taught upon a higher authority that the wind bloweth where it listeth, thou hearest the sound thereof, but knowest not whence it cometh nor whither it goeth; so is every one that is born of the Spirit: that...

...placed beyond the possibility of failure. To all these influences did the Saviour refer, when he said, The wind bloweth where it listeth, thou hearest the...canst not tell whence it cometh, nor whither it goeth. But if this mysteriousness belong to them all, how may we escape delusion ? How may we know whether...

...exhibition of the subject inconsistent with that mystery of which Christ speaks, -when he says, •' The wind bloweth where it listeth, thou hearest the...canst not tell whence it cometh nor whither it goeth ; so is every one that is born of the Spirit ?" Says the objector, I have been in the habit of considering...

...this exhibition of the subject inconsistent with that mystery of which Christ speaks, when he says, " The wind bloweth where it listeth, thou hearest the...canst not tell whence it cometh nor whither it goeth ; so is every one that is born of the Spirit?" Says the objector, I have been in the habit of considering...

...redemption. Hence it is compared to the motion of the wind about us, which we cannot see, John iii. 8: "The wind bloweth where it listeth; thou hearest the sound thereof, but canst not tell whence it cometh, and whither it goeth:" 4thly, It is wholly supernatural. However Arminians...

...It frowns in the storm, it glows in the sun, it burns in the fire, and it twinkles in every star. " The wind bloweth where it listeth ; thou hearest the...not tell whence it cometh, nor whither it goeth." Men, by perseverance and application, may learn much, and yet, in reality, know but little. The most...

...Providence is distinctly to be traced in all the events connected therewith, I make no manner of doubt. " The wind bloweth where it listeth ; thou hearest the...canst not tell whence it cometh nor whither it goeth." Great and wise ends were to be answered by the peopling of this vast continent, capable of supporting...

...taught by our Saviour in the interview with Nieodemus, so far as applicable to the point before us. " The wind bloweth where it listeth, thou hearest the sound thereof, but canst not tell whence it cometh and whither it goeth ; so is every one that is born of the Spirit." There...