A Course of Physico-theological Lectures Upon the State of the World: From the Creation to the Deluge. By Robert Miln, A.M. |
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... suppose that he would not have as religious an education as Ifaac the fon of Sarah , and heir of the promise . Befides , it appears from hiftory , that the other branches of Abraham's family , were for many generations a flourishing ...
... suppose that he would not have as religious an education as Ifaac the fon of Sarah , and heir of the promise . Befides , it appears from hiftory , that the other branches of Abraham's family , were for many generations a flourishing ...
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... Suppose a bright and burning flame of one inch diameter , be placed upon an eminence , it will fend its light around it for the space of three miles , which makes one hundred and thirteen cubical miles . Now , that this fmall body ...
... Suppose a bright and burning flame of one inch diameter , be placed upon an eminence , it will fend its light around it for the space of three miles , which makes one hundred and thirteen cubical miles . Now , that this fmall body ...
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... suppose , that the pebble would always remain at reft , and incef- fantly drag around it the millftone with incon- ceivable velocity . The daily motion of the earth upon its own axis is amazingly great * ; but were the fun to revolve ...
... suppose , that the pebble would always remain at reft , and incef- fantly drag around it the millftone with incon- ceivable velocity . The daily motion of the earth upon its own axis is amazingly great * ; but were the fun to revolve ...
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... suppose , that Almighty God , with whom there is no variableness , nor fhadow of turning , can be liable to any emotion of mind , fuch as we feel from the prevalence of any paffion whatever ; there- : therefore the meaning of these ...
... suppose , that Almighty God , with whom there is no variableness , nor fhadow of turning , can be liable to any emotion of mind , fuch as we feel from the prevalence of any paffion whatever ; there- : therefore the meaning of these ...
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... suppose , that this covenant would alfo relate to the promised feed , who was to come out of Noah's loins . How- ever , the patriarch now receives an affurance , that his piety and approved fidelity should be reward- ed , and be the ...
... suppose , that this covenant would alfo relate to the promised feed , who was to come out of Noah's loins . How- ever , the patriarch now receives an affurance , that his piety and approved fidelity should be reward- ed , and be the ...
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Page 43 - And God created great whales, and every living creature that moveth, which the waters brought forth abundantly, after their kind, and every winged fowl after his kind : and God saw that it was good. And God blessed them, saying, Be fruitful, and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and let fowl multiply in the earth.
Page 129 - And they heard the voice of the Lord God walking in the garden in the cool of the day : and Adam and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the Lord God amongst the trees of the garden.
Page 121 - And the eye cannot say unto the hand, I have no need of thee : nor again the head to the feet, I have no need of you.
Page 64 - Behold, I go forward, but he is not there, And backward, but I cannot perceive him : On the left hand, where he doth work, but I cannot behold him: He hideth himself on the right hand, that I cannot see him.
Page 58 - And God said, Behold I have given you every herb bearing seed, which is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree, in the which is the fruit of a tree yielding seed ; to you it shall be for meat.
Page 349 - Bring forth with thee every living thing that is with thee, of all flesh, both of fowl, and of cattle, and of every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth ; that they may breed abundantly in the earth, and be fruitful, and multiply upon the earth. And Noah went forth, and his sons, and his wife, and his sons...
Page 56 - And the LORD God caused a deep sleep to fall upon Adam, and he slept: and he took one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh instead thereof; and the rib, which the LORD God had taken from man, made he a woman, and brought her unto the man.
Page 310 - All the fountains of the great deep were broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened.
Page 307 - In the six hundredth year of Noah's life, in the second month, the seventeenth day of the month, the same day were all the fountains of the great deep broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened.
Page 204 - And in process of time it came to pass, that Cain brought of the fruit of the ground an offering to the LORD.