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 Proved |
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... globe which we inhabit , will be admitted by all whose minds are capable of entering beyond a mere superficial consideration of the objects around us ; and the principles of curiosity , and the innate love of truth , so inherent in the ...
... globe which we inhabit , will be admitted by all whose minds are capable of entering beyond a mere superficial consideration of the objects around us ; and the principles of curiosity , and the innate love of truth , so inherent in the ...
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... globe , in all its crystalline beauty , must have formed itself . We are no where informed by this chaotic philosophy whence the material atoms , of which this imperfect compound was formed , were produced ; how the liquid mass was held ...
... globe , in all its crystalline beauty , must have formed itself . We are no where informed by this chaotic philosophy whence the material atoms , of which this imperfect compound was formed , were produced ; how the liquid mass was held ...
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... globe was a chemical crystalline deposit from an aqueos chaos , we have to overcome this certain fact in these same laws of nature , viz . that as we know of no other source of heat , and , consequently , of fluidity on our globe , and ...
... globe was a chemical crystalline deposit from an aqueos chaos , we have to overcome this certain fact in these same laws of nature , viz . that as we know of no other source of heat , and , consequently , of fluidity on our globe , and ...
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... globe , the economy of nature has been uniform , and her laws are the only things that have resisted the general movement . The rivers and the rocks , the seas and the continents , have changed in all their parts ; but the laws which ...
... globe , the economy of nature has been uniform , and her laws are the only things that have resisted the general movement . The rivers and the rocks , the seas and the continents , have changed in all their parts ; but the laws which ...
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... globe we now inhabit , we may safely refer the subject to the powerful evidence pro- duced in such abundance , and with so much industry , by this author himself . I have had occasion in a note , in another part of this treatise , ( see ...
... globe we now inhabit , we may safely refer the subject to the powerful evidence pro- duced in such abundance , and with so much industry , by this author himself . I have had occasion in a note , in another part of this treatise , ( see ...
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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