A New System of Geology, in which the Great Revolutions of the Earth and Animated Nature, are Reconciled at Once to Modern Science and Sacred History

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Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, & Green, 1829 - Bible and geology - 621 pages

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Page 83 - 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 for years. And GOD made two great lights : the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night: he made the stars also.
Page 582 - of Science and the records of Faith. " For the Lord God had not caused it to rain upon the earth, and there was not a man to till the ground. But there went up a mist from the whole earth, and watered the whole face of the ground.
Page 465 - of his heart was only evil continually. And it repented the Lord, that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him at the heart." Since geology leads us to conclude, that the earth peopled by Noah's contemporaries, perished at the deluge, complete harmony is maintained between Science, and a just interpretation of holy
Page 11 - do all thy work, but the seventh is the Sabbath of the Lord thy God ; in it thou shalt not do any work . . . for in six days the Lord made Heaven and Earth, the sea and all that in them is, and rested the seventh day : wherefore the Lord blessed the Sabbath-day and hallowed it.
Page 580 - And God said unto Noah, The end of all flesh is come before me, for the earth is rilled with violence through them ; and behold I will destroy them with the
Page 596 - The waters increased, and bare up the ark, and it was lift up above the earth. And the waters prevailed, and were increased greatly upon the earth ; and the ark went upon the face of the
Page 494 - ascend, the valleys descend * unto the place which thou hast founded for them. Thou hast set a bound that they may not pass over ; that they turn not again to cover the earth Thou
Page 241 - required frequent access of air, that it swam upon or near the surface, arching back its long neck like the swan, and occasionally darting it down at the fish which happened to float within its reach ? It may perhaps have lurked in shoal water along the coast, concealed among the sea-weed, and raising its nostrils,
Page 464 - All the fowls of heaven made their nests in his boughs, and under his branches did all the beasts of the field bring forth their young, and under his shadow dwelt all great nations.
Page 54 - 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."—Genesis, i.

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