John 1:12-14 But as many as received him, to them gave he power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on his name:… According to the teaching of some men, how is it? "I am a minister of God — I am a man — as a man I may will to take a child and baptize it, and I may will to baptize it by a certain hour of the clock; and just as I am going to baptize it, I may will to put it off till to.morrow; and when to-morrow comes, I may will that I will not baptize that child at all — for if baptized, the child may die. And so, according to the caprice of my will, the child is baptized at this hour, or at that, to-day, or to-morrow, or it is not baptized at all; and therefore, following the caprice of my will, and just according to my will, the child is inevit ably a child of God at this time of the clock, or at that time of the clock — to-day, or to-morrow, or the next day, or never at all." What, I ask, is this but to be "born of the will of man"? (J. Vaughan, M. A.) Parallel Verses KJV: But as many as received him, to them gave he power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on his name: |
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