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 and MOTION given , to form a world ; ' and the presumption of man " has often led him to attempt the solution of 66 this absurd problem . At first , philosophers " contented themselves with reasoning on the " traditional or ...
... MATTER and MOTION given , to form a world ; ' and the presumption of man " has often led him to attempt the solution of 66 this absurd problem . At first , philosophers " contented themselves with reasoning on the " traditional or ...
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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 cry- stalline beauty , must have formed itself . We are no where informed by this ...
... 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 cry- stalline beauty , must have formed itself . We are no where informed by this ...
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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 the 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 ...
... matter is divided into the 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 ...
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... matter , in solid , massy , hard , impenetrable , and moveable particles , of such sizes and figures , and with such other properties , and in such propor- " tions to space , as most conduced to the end for which he formed them . 66 66 ...
... matter , in solid , massy , hard , impenetrable , and moveable particles , of such sizes and figures , and with such other properties , and in such propor- " tions to space , as most conduced to the end for which he formed them . 66 66 ...
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Page 136 - And God said unto Noah, The end of all flesh is come before me; for the earth is filled with violence through them; and, behold, I will destroy them with the earth.
Page 138 - Saviour, 3 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 155 - 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 149 - And the waters returned from off the earth continually: and after the end of the hundred and fifty days the waters were abated.
Page 155 - 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 247 - While the earth remaineth, seed time and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night, shall not cease.
Page 428 - The name of the first is Pison: that is it which compasseth the whole land of Havilah, where there is gold; and the gold of that land is good: there is bdellium and the onyx stone.
Page 62 - 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 256 - 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 148 - 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