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 | George Stanley Faber - 1828 - 424 pages
...continue as they were from the beginning of the creation. 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 1 . • | We may... | |
 | Samuel Greatheed, Daniel Parken, Theophilus Williams, Josiah Conder, Thomas Price, Jonathan Edwards Ryland, Edwin Paxton Hood - 1828 - 618 pages
...come''; and " Of this", saith St. Peter of some profane infidels, " they are willingly ignorant, that by the word of God the heavens were of old " ; and the like St. Paul saith, " that they received not the love of the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness."... | |
 | Hervey Wilbur - 1829 - 444 pages
...they were from the heginning of the creation. fä For this they willingly are ignorant of, that hy the word of God the heavens were of old, and the earth standing out of the water and in the water : 6 Wherehy the world that then was, heing overflowed with water, perished : t 7 But the... | |
 | Ralph Cudworth, Thomas Birch - 1829 - 554 pages
...what the apostle there adds by way of confutation, that they " were wilfully ignorant of this, thatby the word of God the heavens were of old, and the earth standing out of the water and in the water ; and that as the world, that then was, overflowing with water perished, so the heavens and... | |
 | Joseph John Gurney - 1829 - 412 pages
...last day, is the destruction of the visible world. " By the word of God,'' says the apostle Peter, " 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... | |
 | James Nourse - 1829 - 292 pages
...the beginning of the creation. For this they willingly are ignorant of, that by the word of God the 5 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, 6 perished : but the heavens... | |
 | James A. Begg - 1830 - 264 pages
...continue as they were from the beginning of the creation. 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... | |
 | Samuel Noble - 1830 - 266 pages
...the conflagration of heaven and earth, is described by Moses under the figure of a flood : he says, " 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 by water, perished: but the heavens and... | |
 | Church of England - 1830 - 548 pages
...light ; and God said, Let there be a firmament," &c. " and there was so." Hence the apostle saith, " By the word of God the heavens were of old, and the earth standing out of the water and in the water," 2 Pet. iii. 5. and " the worlds were framed by the word of God/' Heb. xi. 3. and the Psalmist,... | |
 | 1831 - 584 pages
...mode of reasoning St. Peter thus defeats, v. 5, 6. " 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." As if he had said,... | |
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