General View of the Geology of Scripture: In which the Unerring Truth of the Inspired Narrative of the Early Events in the World is Exhibited, and Distinctly ProvedKey & Biddle, 1833 - 281 pages |
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... matter once existed in a confused and imperfect mass , from which , in the course of some indefinitely long period of time , our globe , in all its crystalline beauty , must have formed itself . We are no where informed by this chaotic ...
... matter once existed in a confused and imperfect mass , from which , in the course of some indefinitely long period of time , our globe , in all its crystalline beauty , must have formed itself . We are no where informed by this chaotic ...
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... matter has been subjected , and by which it is forced to assume those crystalline forms which we so much admire ; and being thus forced to acknowledge a Creator so wise and powerful as to be able to form even a chaos out of nothing ...
... matter has been subjected , and by which it is forced to assume those crystalline forms which we so much admire ; and being thus forced to acknowledge a Creator so wise and powerful as to be able to form even a chaos out of nothing ...
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... matter is divided into three kingdoms , as they have been called , of animal , vegetable and mineral : there are few who would now dispute that the first and second of these great divisions must have been at first formed in a perfect ...
... matter is divided into three kingdoms , as they have been called , of animal , vegetable and mineral : there are few who would now dispute that the first and second of these great divisions must have been at first formed in a perfect ...
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... matter , in solid , massy , hard , impenetrable , and movable particles , of such sizes and figures , and with such other properties , and in such proportions to space , as most conduced to the end for which he formed them . “ All ...
... matter , in solid , massy , hard , impenetrable , and movable particles , of such sizes and figures , and with such other properties , and in such proportions to space , as most conduced to the end for which he formed them . “ All ...
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... matter with such figure and proportions , as most condu- ced to the end for which he formed it ; and as the end , in this * Com . Estim . vol . i . p . 73 . De Luc . Lett . Geol . p . 81 . + Page 364 . " The spheroidal figure of the ...
... matter with such figure and proportions , as most condu- ced to the end for which he formed it ; and as the end , in this * Com . Estim . vol . i . p . 73 . De Luc . Lett . Geol . p . 81 . + Page 364 . " The spheroidal figure of the ...
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Page 97 - The voice of thy thunder was in the heaven: the lightnings lightened the world: the earth trembled and shook. Thy way is in the sea, and thy path in the great waters, and thy footsteps are not known.
Page 97 - Thou coveredst it with the deep as with a garment: The waters stood above the mountains. At thy rebuke they fled; At the voice of thy thunder they hasted away.
Page 94 - And God remembered Noah, and every living thing, and all the cattle that was with him in the ark: and God made a wind to pass over the earth, and the waters assuaged...
Page 46 - And God said, Let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters. And God made the firmament, and divided the waters, which were under the firmament from the waters, which were above the firmament: and it was so. And God called the firmament Heaven. And the evening and the morning were the second day.
Page 94 - And it came to pass at the end of forty days, that Noah opened the window of the ark which he had made: ~] And he sent forth a raven, which went forth to and fro, until the waters were dried up from off the earth.
Page 148 - While the earth remaineth, seed time and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night, shall not cease.
Page 89 - For this they willingly are ignorant of, that by the word of God the heavens were of old, and the earth standing out of the water and in the water, whereby the world that then was, being overflowed with water, perished; but the heavens and the earth, which are now, by the same word are kept in store, reserved unto fire against the day of judgment and perdition of ungodly men.
Page 153 - And I will establish my covenant with you; neither shall all flesh be cut off any more by the waters of a flood; neither shall there any more be a flood to destroy the earth.
Page 89 - I stir up your pure minds by way of remembrance: that ye may be mindful of the words which were spoken before by the holy prophets, and of the commandment of us the apostles of the Lord and Saviour: knowing this first, that there shall come in the last days scoffers, walking after their own lusts, and saying, Where is the promise of his coming ? for since the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as they were from the beginning of the creation.
Page 94 - And, behold, I, even I, do bring a flood of waters upon the earth, to destroy all flesh, wherein is the breath of life, from under heaven ; and every thing that is in the earth shall die. But with thee will I establish my covenant; and thou shalt come into the ark, thou, and thy sons, and thy wife, and thy sons