The Earth's Antiquity in Harmony with the Mosaic Record of CreationJohn W. Parker, 1849 - 214 pages |
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... minds . These are not times when any one who duly esti- mates the invaluable interests dependent upon reli- gious influences , can shut his eyes to the novel lights shed from the marvellous discoveries of Modern Science , or be ...
... minds . These are not times when any one who duly esti- mates the invaluable interests dependent upon reli- gious influences , can shut his eyes to the novel lights shed from the marvellous discoveries of Modern Science , or be ...
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... mind than to the professed Theologian : for surely the claimed vast Antiquity of this Globe on which he lives - so far removed , according to its professed Archaic monuments , beyond the historic period of our own PPEFACE . xiii.
... mind than to the professed Theologian : for surely the claimed vast Antiquity of this Globe on which he lives - so far removed , according to its professed Archaic monuments , beyond the historic period of our own PPEFACE . xiii.
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... mind taking a widening sweep over the regions of space , and bringing down the starry worlds , as it were , to the very earth , opening new springs for adoring intelligence in the wonders of Astronomy . At a succeeding time we see the ...
... mind taking a widening sweep over the regions of space , and bringing down the starry worlds , as it were , to the very earth , opening new springs for adoring intelligence in the wonders of Astronomy . At a succeeding time we see the ...
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... mind ; that which just before had been conceived of only as a confused amorphous mass of rock , unyielding in usefulness , save as materials for our own proud habitations , was , in an instant , found teeming with reliques of living ...
... mind ; that which just before had been conceived of only as a confused amorphous mass of rock , unyielding in usefulness , save as materials for our own proud habitations , was , in an instant , found teeming with reliques of living ...
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... Mind , whose finger and whose tongue , whatever may be the apparent discrepancy , ever are in unison , speaking one voice , revealing one consentaneous course of action , alike in His Works and in His Word . It is quite certain that ...
... Mind , whose finger and whose tongue , whatever may be the apparent discrepancy , ever are in unison , speaking one voice , revealing one consentaneous course of action , alike in His Works and in His Word . It is quite certain that ...
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Page 208 - Thou, Lord, in the beginning hast laid the foundation of the earth; and the heavens are the works of thine hands: they shall perish; but thou remainest; and they all shall wax old as doth a garment; and as a vesture shalt thou fold them up, and they shall be changed: but thou art the same, and thy years shall not fail.
Page 103 - In the beginning was the Logos, and the Logos was with God, and the Logos was God.
Page 116 - I beheld the earth, and, lo, it was without form, and void; and the heavens, and they had no light. I beheld the mountains, and, lo, they trembled, and all the hills moved lightly. I beheld, and, lo, there was no man, and all the birds of the heavens were fled. I beheld, and, lo, the fruitful place was a wilderness, and all the cities thereof were broken down at the presence of the LORD, and by his fierce anger.
Page 44 - These are thy glorious works, Parent of good, Almighty, thine this universal frame, Thus wondrous fair; thyself how wondrous then ! Unspeakable, who sitt'st above these heavens, To us invisible, or dimly seen In these thy lowest works; yet these declare Thy goodness beyond thought, and power divine.
Page 116 - ... beheld the earth, and lo, it was without form and void : and the heavens, and they had no light. I beheld the mountains, and lo, they trembled : and all the hills moved lightly. I beheld, and lo, there was no man, and all the birds of the heavens were fled. J beheld, and lo, the fruitful place was a wilderness, and all the cities thereof were broken down at the presence of the LOR i-, and by his fierce anger.
Page 32 - The meaning which any generation puts upon the phrases of Scripture, depends, more than is at first supposed, upon the received philosophy of the time. Hence, while men imagine that they are contending for revelation, they are in fact contending for their own interpretation of revelation, unconsciously adapted to what they believe to be rationally probable.
Page 36 - I am God, and there is none else ; I am God, and there is none like me, declaring the end from the beginning, and from ancient times the things that are not yet done, saying, " My counsel shall stand, and I will do all my pleasure...
Page 33 - ... views. And the world then looks back with surprise at the error of those who thought that the essence of Revelation was involved in their own arbitrary version of some collateral circumstance. At the present day we can hardly conceive how reasonable men should have imagined that religious reflections on the stability of the earth, and the beauty and use of the luminaries which revolve round it, would be interfered with by its being acknowledged that this rest and motion are apparent only.
Page 117 - And all the people saw the thunderings, and the lightnings, and the noise of the trumpet, and the mountain smoking ; and when the people saw it, they removed, 19 and stood afar off.
Page 155 - ... from analogy, but by the incontrovertible evidence of physical phenomena) that there were former conditions of our planet, separated from each other by vast intervals of time, during which man, and the other creatures of his own date, had not been called into beirg.