Divine Providence, Or, The Three Cycles of Revelation: Showing the Parallelism of the Patriarchal, Jewish, and Christian Dispensations : Being a New Evidence of the Divine Origin of ChristianityJames Duncan, 1834 - 627 pages |
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... means of making that duration a state of the highest dignity , security , and happiness , necessarily establishes a claim to be considered , in preference to any question arising merely from this world . A great number of works on the ...
... means of making that duration a state of the highest dignity , security , and happiness , necessarily establishes a claim to be considered , in preference to any question arising merely from this world . A great number of works on the ...
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... means to its triumph over the arms and artifice of hea- thenism , he affects to reply by the extraordinary changes produced on the scale of nations by in- struments of obvious simplicity , and points to the religious revolutions of the ...
... means to its triumph over the arms and artifice of hea- thenism , he affects to reply by the extraordinary changes produced on the scale of nations by in- struments of obvious simplicity , and points to the religious revolutions of the ...
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... in the government of the universe , that its disuse seems to imply an entire alteration in the guidance and means of the system . But why shall not the physical change be as conspicuous as the moral ? We have dis- 10 THE EXISTENCE OF GOD .
... in the government of the universe , that its disuse seems to imply an entire alteration in the guidance and means of the system . But why shall not the physical change be as conspicuous as the moral ? We have dis- 10 THE EXISTENCE OF GOD .
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... means this immense disrup- tion was effected , whether by the volcano and the earthquake , or by still fiercer ... mean depth of the Atlantic at three miles , and of the Pacific at four , ( Lectures ) ; and the French ments . have proof ...
... means this immense disrup- tion was effected , whether by the volcano and the earthquake , or by still fiercer ... mean depth of the Atlantic at three miles , and of the Pacific at four , ( Lectures ) ; and the French ments . have proof ...
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... mean the heavenly bodies . Those bodies on the fourth day were invested with new quali- ties for a new character : they were rendered the measures of time . The sun and moon alternately illumining the earth , were now especially ...
... mean the heavenly bodies . Those bodies on the fourth day were invested with new quali- ties for a new character : they were rendered the measures of time . The sun and moon alternately illumining the earth , were now especially ...
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Page 25 - And God said, Let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days, and years : 15 And let them be for lights in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth : and it was so.
Page 186 - And in process of time it came to pass, that Cain brought of the fruit of the ground an offering unto the Lord. And Abel, he also brought of the firstlings of his flock and of the fat thereof.
Page xi - And when he had opened the fifth seal, I saw under the altar the souls of them that were slain for the word of God, and for the testimony which they held : and they cried with a loud voice, saying, How long, O Lord, holy and true, dost thou not judge and avenge our blood on them that dwell on the earth...
Page 515 - And the seventh angel sounded ; and there were great voices in heaven, saying, The kingdoms of this world are become the kingdoms of our Lord, and of his Christ ; and he shall reign for ever and ever...
Page 262 - And the waters prevailed exceedingly upon the earth; and all the high hills, that were under the whole heaven, were covered.
Page 550 - But he who was of the bondwoman was born after the flesh; but he of the freewoman was by promise. Which things are an allegory: for these are the two covenants; the one from the mount Sinai, which gendereth to bondage, which is Agar.
Page 164 - For the Lord shall comfort Zion: he will comfort all her waste places; and he will make her wilderness like Eden, and her desert like the garden of the Lord; joy and gladness shall be found therein, thanksgiving, and the voice of melody.
Page 132 - And God said, Behold I have given you every herb bearing seed, which is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree, in the which is the fruit of a tree yielding seed ; to you it shall be for meat.
Page 400 - And Moses stretched forth his hand over the sea, and the sea returned to his strength when the morning appeared; and the Egyptians fled against it; and the Lord overthrew the Egyptians in the midst of the sea. And the waters returned, and covered the chariots, and the horsemen, and all the host of Pharaoh that came into the sea after them ; there remained not so much as one of them.