...Holy Spirit we are regenerated at our baptism. This our blessed Lord declares (John, iii. 5), Except a man be born of water and the Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God. And it is most truly spoken by the Apostle (Titus, iii. 5), that not by works of...

...again, he cannot see the kingdom of God;" and further, " Verily, verily, (amen) 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...

...prophesy, and the spirit of the prophets is subject to the prophets-, so there is unity ; and except a man be born of water and the spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom, though they may profess all the scripture of the saints, given forth from Genesis to the...

...with the contentions of an adversary. This only I shall observe, That the words of our blessed Lord, " Unless a man be born of water and the Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of heaven," cannot be expounded to the exclusion of children, but the same expositions...

...affirmative of a nature, those of a 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,"...

...natural birth, saith, " How can a man be born, w hen he is old ?" Jesus explains himself. " 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,...

...more weight, when taken in connection with that declaration of our Saviour, John, iii. 5, " except a man be born of water and the spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God." But how can a man be born of the spirit, by the administration of baptism, who,...

...were more abundantly poured forth, when the Gospel was published : from which we learn, that except a man be born of water and the Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of heaven H .- that by the spirit of adoption **, changing our nature and condition, we...

...being " born again," natural birth, then Jesus explains himself more distinctly, by saying^ " except a man be born of water, and the Spirit he cannot enter into the kingdom of God." Upon the very face then of the text it may not unfairly be presumed, that our...

...necessary 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...