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... preceding , as the ag- gregate number of years in sacred Historic chronology from the creation , make up the 6000 years as the limits set by God to the duration of time .... Consequences , upon the paradventure of an error in the ...
... preceding , as the ag- gregate number of years in sacred Historic chronology from the creation , make up the 6000 years as the limits set by God to the duration of time .... Consequences , upon the paradventure of an error in the ...
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... preceding days , into natural day and night . Thenceforward , the di- urnal revolutions of the earth on its axis , and the lu- nar and solar revolutions of the sun and moon , estab- lished the divisions of time into days , months , and ...
... preceding days , into natural day and night . Thenceforward , the di- urnal revolutions of the earth on its axis , and the lu- nar and solar revolutions of the sun and moon , estab- lished the divisions of time into days , months , and ...
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... preceding page . As to the intermixtures of fossil stratification as given in Cuvier's table , placing fossil shells and corals IMMEDIATELY next to that of the primitive rock , they cannot be accounted for on the diluvian theory ' of ...
... preceding page . As to the intermixtures of fossil stratification as given in Cuvier's table , placing fossil shells and corals IMMEDIATELY next to that of the primitive rock , they cannot be accounted for on the diluvian theory ' of ...
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... preceding the deluge . The bones were carried into the cave , as food , by the hyenas ; the smaller ani- mals perhaps entire , the larger ones piecemeal : for by no other means could the bones of such large animals as the elephant ...
... preceding the deluge . The bones were carried into the cave , as food , by the hyenas ; the smaller ani- mals perhaps entire , the larger ones piecemeal : for by no other means could the bones of such large animals as the elephant ...
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... preceding days must have embraced a period of six thousand years . The result , therefore , of the principles of exposition adopted in this Treatise is , that besides the vast and indefinite period which we assign to the divine agency ...
... preceding days must have embraced a period of six thousand years . The result , therefore , of the principles of exposition adopted in this Treatise is , that besides the vast and indefinite period which we assign to the divine agency ...
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Page iv - ALMIGHTY God, give us grace that we may cast away the works of darkness, and put upon us the armour of light, now in the time of this mortal life, in which thy son Jesus Christ came to visit us in great humility ; that in the last day, when he shall come again in his glorious Majesty to judge both the quick and dead, we may rise to the life immortal, through him who liveth and reigneth with thee and the Holy Ghost, now and ever.
Page 310 - And there shall be signs in the sun, and in the moon, and in the stars; and upon the earth distress of nations, with perplexity; the sea and the waves roaring; 26 Men's hearts failing them for fear, and for looking after those things which are coming on the earth: for the powers of heaven shall be shaken.
Page 312 - Ah sinful nation, a people laden with iniquity, a seed of evildoers, children that are corrupters: they have forsaken the Lord, they have provoked the Holy One of Israel unto anger, they are gone away backward.
Page 97 - And as he sat upon the mount of Olives, the disciples came unto him privately, saying, Tell us, when shall these things be? and what shall be the sign of thy coming, and of the end of the world?
Page 183 - Then shalt thou cause the trumpet of the jubilee to sound on the tenth day of the seventh month, in the day of atonement shall ye make the trumpet sound throughout all your land.
Page 361 - And the seventh angel sounded ; and there were great voices in heaven, saying, The kingdoms of this world are become the kingdoms of our Lord, and of his Christ ; and he shall reign for ever and ever...
Page 315 - If ye were of the world, the world would love its own: but because ye are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, therefore the world hateth you.
Page 342 - And I will shew wonders in heaven above, and signs in the earth beneath, blood and fire and vapour of smoke. The sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before that great and notable day of the Lord come. And it shall come to pass, that whosoever shall call on the name of the Lord shall be saved.
Page 183 - And the LORD spake unto Moses and Aaron in the land of Egypt, saying, This month shall be unto you the beginning of months: it shall be the first month of the year to you.
Page 225 - In the first year of Darius the son of Ahasuerus, of the seed of the Medes, which was made king over the realm of the Chaldeans; in the first year of his reign I Daniel understood by books the number of the years, whereof the word of the Lord came to Jeremiah the prophet, that he would accomplish seventy years in the desolations of Jerusalem.