The Scripture-theory of the Earth: Throughout All Its Revolutions, and All the Periods of Its Existence, from the Creation, to the Final Renovation of All Things |
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... reader will judge . The most certain knowledge of nature is moft affuredly to be learned from the Au- thor of nature , if he hath made any difco- veries of this kind . This he hath not profeffedly done : He hath not This 2 INTRODUCTION .
... reader will judge . The most certain knowledge of nature is moft affuredly to be learned from the Au- thor of nature , if he hath made any difco- veries of this kind . This he hath not profeffedly done : He hath not This 2 INTRODUCTION .
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... most sacred and inviolable : There is here , therefore , no room left for the exercise of the inventive faculty ; for the indulgence of the imagination ; or for the difplay of elo- quence ; in whatever degree these powers might be ...
... most sacred and inviolable : There is here , therefore , no room left for the exercise of the inventive faculty ; for the indulgence of the imagination ; or for the difplay of elo- quence ; in whatever degree these powers might be ...
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... most proper concerning fubjects incidentally mentioned , and not profeffedly treated of ; where there is no neceffity of combating received notions , which are merely fpecu- aucun fuppofition , et qu'il ne peut faire ufage de fon ...
... most proper concerning fubjects incidentally mentioned , and not profeffedly treated of ; where there is no neceffity of combating received notions , which are merely fpecu- aucun fuppofition , et qu'il ne peut faire ufage de fon ...
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... most part , if not always , regard is had to the nature of things , in the description and ac- counts which are given of them in Scrip- ture : And if this can be made out to a to- lerable degree of precision and certainty , with regard ...
... most part , if not always , regard is had to the nature of things , in the description and ac- counts which are given of them in Scrip- ture : And if this can be made out to a to- lerable degree of precision and certainty , with regard ...
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... investigated as to attain to that truth which it aims at , it will then affume to be no more than a plain natural history of it ; but that in i . its defign , the largest and most compre- henfive ; its 12 INTRODUCTION .
... investigated as to attain to that truth which it aims at , it will then affume to be no more than a plain natural history of it ; but that in i . its defign , the largest and most compre- henfive ; its 12 INTRODUCTION .
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Page 281 - And God said : This is the token of the covenant which I make between me and you, and every living creature that is with you, for perpetual generations: I do set my bow in the cloud, and it shall be for a token of a covenant between me and the earth.
Page 440 - The mountains quake at him, and the hills melt, and the earth is burned at his presence, yea, the world, and all that dwell therein. Who can stand before his indignation? and who can abide in the fierceness of his anger? his fury is poured out like fire, and the rocks are thrown down by him.
Page 432 - And when the thousand years are expired, Satan shall be loosed out of his prison, And shall go out to deceive the nations which are in the four quarters of the earth, Gog and Magog, to gather them together to battle: the number of whom is as the sand of the sea.
Page 131 - Who coverest thyself with light as with a garment: who stretchest out the heavens like a curtain : Who layeth the beams of his chambers in the waters : who maketh the clouds his chariot ; who walketh upon the wings of the wind...
Page 279 - And God spake unto Noah, and to his sons with him, saying, And I, behold, I establish my covenant with you, and with your seed after you ; and with every living creature that is with you, of the fowl, of the cattle, and of every beast of the earth with you ; from all that go out of the ark, to every beast of the earth.
Page 255 - And God set them in the firmament of heaven to give light upon the earth, And to rule over the day and over the night, and to divide the light from the darkness: and God saw that it was good. And the evening and the morning were the fourth day.
Page 495 - Behold, the nations are as a drop of a bucket, and are counted as the small dust of the balance : behold, He taketh up the isles as a very little thing.
Page 386 - For then will I turn to the people a pure language, that they may all call upon the name of the Lord, to serve Him with one consent.
Page 397 - And it shall come to pass, that he that is left in Zion, and he that remaineth in Jerusalem, shall be called holy, even every one that is written among the living in Jerusalem...