...regeneration a different meaning from baptism, is to stumble at the threshold of the sanctuary f. " Except a man be born again, he cannot enter into the kingdom of heaven," must not be applied, in strictness, to conversion; nor is it asserted in Scripture, or true in fact,...

...she had an interest in Christ — that she feared she had never been regenerated; repeating "except a man be born again, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God." '• O that I could know (halt had passed through the ne-,v liirth." Her mother begged her to...

...ye repent ye shall all likewise perish. Do the heathen give any evidence of true repentance'? Except a man be born again he cannot enter into the kingdom of God. The apostles considered Ihe heathen as in a state of hopeless ruin without the gospel. For there...

...present) Ye mw»i be born again. As if he had s;tid, " What I say to Nicodemus, 1 say unto all, Except a man be born again, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God." 7. Here the Jewish ruler, not daring to object any more to the truth of our Lord's doctrine,...

...natural branches, how much soever they are laden with such fruit. The threatening is universal ; " Except a man be born again, he cannot enter into the kingdom of heaven." " Without holiness no man," be his natural gifts ever so excellent, "shall see God." Emr belKshed nature,...

...she said to her mother, in a peculiarly emphatic manner, " Verily, verily, I say unto thee, except a man be born again, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God." 4. About a week before her death, when distressingly exercised by bodily suffering, I inquired,...

...every pious resolution by the addition of these motives. But, alas ! the evil lies deeper. " Except a man be born again, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God." True religion must arise from a clear and deep conviction of your lost state by nature and practice,...

...any thing rather than the spiritual worshippers required by that Gospel which declares, that " except a man be born again he cannot enter into the kingdom of heaven ;"- — a birth, not merely by the baptism of water into a visible church, but by the baptism of the...

...Strait is the gate and narrow is the way which leadeth to life, and few there be that find it. Except a man be born again, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God. It is appointed to all men once to die, and after death the judgment. We must all appear before...

...the thoughts of the loss of it. Know this, that there is such a thing as the new birth ; and except a man be born again, he cannot enter into the kingdom of heaven : God's favour is not to be recovered without it. This new birth hath its founda tion laid in a sense...