Sketches and Hints of Church History, and Theological Controversy: Chiefly Translated Or Abridged from Modern Foreign Writers, Volume 2 |
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Page 294 - Thus saith the Lord God of the Hebrews, Let my people go, that they may serve me. For I will at this time send all my plagues upon thine heart, and upon thy servants, and upon thy people; that thou mayest know that there is none like me in all the earth.
Page 293 - And the Lord appeared unto Abram, and said, Unto thy seed will I give this land: and there builded he an altar unto the Lord, who appeared unto him.
Page 301 - But we find, on the contrary, that the stomach, which at 'one instant, that is, while possessed of the living principle, was capable of resisting the digestive powers which it contained, the next moment, viz., when deprived of the living principle, is itself capable of being digested, either by the digestive powers of other stomachs, or by the remains of that power which it had of digesting other things.
Page 300 - Jonah might have been a person of this kind, having the foramen ovale of his heart continuing open from his birth to the end of his days; in which case he could not be drowned, either by being cast into the sea, or by being swallowed up by the fish ? 3.
Page 301 - or parts of animals, possessed of the living principle, when taken into the stomach, are not in the least affected by the powers of. that viscus, so long as the animal principle remains Thence it is that we find animals of various kinds living in the stomach, or even hatched or bred there ; but the moment that any of these lose the living principle, they become subject to the digestive powers of the stomach.
Page 294 - Exodus, faying, I am the Lord thy God, who brought thee out of the land of Egypt, out of the houfe of bondage.
Page 302 - ... mentioned by Derham had,) might be cast into the sea, and be swallowed up whole by a great fish, and yet be neither drowned, nor bitten, nor corrupted, nor digested, nor killed ; and it will easily follow, from the dictates of common sense, that in that case the fish itself must either die, or be prompted by its feelings to get rid of its load ; and this it perhaps might do more readily near the shore, than in the midst of waters ; and in that case, such person would certainly be recovered again,...
Page 301 - Land, for example, to be introduced into the ftomach of a living animal, and kept there- $or fo'me confiderable time, it would be found, that the diflblvent powers of the ftomach could have no 'effect upon it : but if the fame hand were feparated from the body, and introduced into the fame ftomach, \fre fhould then find, that the ftomach would immediately act upon it. Indeed, if this were not the cafe, we fhould find...
Page 300 - Derham mentions several persons who were many hours and days under water, and yet recovered ; and one, who even retained the sense of hearing in that state. And Dr.