...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...

...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...

...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,...

...(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...

...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...

...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...

...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...

...considerable time before I admitted any serious reflections concerning the ordinances : which indeed I did not care to think of at all, till one day reading...third Chapter of St. John's Gospel, ' Except a man he born of water and the Spirit, he cannot enter the kingdom of God.' The words struck me to the heart...

...considerable time, before I admitted any serious reflections concerning the ordinances ; which indeed I did 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...

...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...