Looking unto Jesus a view of the everlasting gospel, or, the souls eying of…

2. Now was it that he delivered that spiritual and mystical Sermon of Regeneration, at which Nicodemus wonders,¹ how can a man be born when he is old? Can he enter the second time into his Mothers womb and be born? But Jesus takes off the wonder, in telling him, this was not a work of flesh and blood, but of the Spirit of God, for the Spirit bloweth where it listeth; and is as the wind certain and notorious in the effects, but secret in the Principle, and manner of production. Then Christ proceeds in his Sermon, telling him yet of higher things, as of his descent from Heaven, of his Passion and Ascension, and of the Mercy of Redemption, which he came to work and effect for all that believe; of the Love of the Father, the Mission of the Son, the Rewards of Faith, and Glories of Eternity: and this was the Sum of his Sermon to Nicodemus, which was the fullest of mystery and speculation that ever he made, except that which he made immediately before his death.

2. Now was it that he delivered that spiritual and mystical Sermon of Regeneration, at which Nichodemus wonders,¹ how can a man be born when he is old? Can he enter the second time into his Mothers womb and be born? But Jesus takes off the wonder, in telling him, this was not a work of flesh and blood, but of the Spirit of God, for the Spirit bloweth where it listeth; and is as the wind certain and notorious in the effects, but secret in the Principle, and manner of production. Then Christ proceeds in his Sermon, telling him yet of higher things, as of his descent from Heaven, of his Passion and Ascension, and of the Mercy of Redemption, which he came to work and effect for all that believe; of the Love of the Father, the Mission of the Son, the Rewards of Faith, and Glories of Eternity: and this was the Sum of his Sermon to Nichodemus, which was the fullest of mystery and speculation that ever he made, except that which he made immediately before his death.

1. 1John 3.4.