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John 3:4
Nicodemus said to him, How can a man be born when he is old? can he enter the second time into his mother's womb, and be born?
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The Resemblance Between the Old Testament and the New.
... is born; and yet he pays dearly for his birth in the ... not see in death the beginning
of a new life ... holy fathers under the Old Testament were not ignorant that in ...
/.../the institutes of the christian religion/chapter 10 the resemblance between.htm

On Being Filled with the Spirit
... You will stand and cavil at the measures, because you ... as ignorant of spirituality
as Nicodemus was of the new birth. They are ignorant, and I fear unconverted. ...
/.../finney/lectures on revivals of religion/lecture vii on being filled.htm

The Learned Pagans had Means and Opportunities of Informing ...
... to the capacities of the wise and ignorant, could overcome ... all the particulars of
our Saviour's birth, life, death ... If any new doctrine was started, or any fact ...
/.../sect v the learned pagans.htm

Letter Lxix. To Oceanus.
... explain the mysterious doctrine of that second birth which though ... baptism, nay even
quickened into a new life with ... Was the apostle ignorant of our shifts and ...
/.../jerome/the principal works of st jerome/letter lxix to oceanus.htm

Through the Fall and Revolt of Adam, the Whole Human Race Made ...
... to be, that he may not be ignorant of his ... truly humble, while we are inflamed with
new desires to ... reiterates the confession of impurity from his very birth. ...
/.../calvin/the institutes of the christian religion/chapter 1 through the fall.htm

A vindication of Gospel Truths Opened,
... in another case, all the blood of the ignorant, from the ... sum of our discourse is
of the birth, righteousness, death ... and the Quakers have set a new gloss upon ...
/.../bunyan/the works of john bunyan volumes 1-3/a vindication of gospel truths.htm

Book vii. This is the Seventh Book of Our Treatise against the ...
... by this declaration of the shewing, to suppose that the Son's nature is ignorant
and therefore ... Hence we see that His birth has given Him no new or alien ...
/.../hilary/the life and writings of st hilary of poitiers/book vii this is the.htm

2 Cor. Iii. 7, 8
... for it [586] caused not him to be ignorant of any thing ... not the enmity or contradiction,
of the New Covenant in ... bitterly, for that we who enjoy a birth so noble ...
/.../homilies on the epistles of paul to the corinthians/homily vii 2 cor iii.htm

Every Thing Proceeding from the Corrupt Nature of Man Damnable.
... children of kings are distinguished at their birth by some ... his servants, and loads
them with new gifts of ... support of this view, some make an ignorant and false ...
/.../the institutes of the christian religion/chapter 3 every thing proceeding.htm

Against Atheism and Infidelity.
... Wherein our Saviour's birth is celebrated ... in order to unsettle the minds of the ignorant,
disturb the ... any former perplexity, when it appears in a new shape, or ...
/.../sect viii against atheism and.htm

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Neophytes: General Scriptures Concerning