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 ThingsJ. and F. Rivington, 1773 - 502 pages |
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... matters fhould be expreffed according to the fyftem of appearances ; as is the general practice at prefent , though we live in a philofophical age ; the popular language being always the best understood ; and therefore the most proper ...
... matters fhould be expreffed according to the fyftem of appearances ; as is the general practice at prefent , though we live in a philofophical age ; the popular language being always the best understood ; and therefore the most proper ...
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... matter in the universe ; as the Creator is here plainly distinguished from his creation ; and as it will not be maintained , that matter can create itself : Much lefs , on the other hand , will that whimsical notion , which hath been ...
... matter in the universe ; as the Creator is here plainly distinguished from his creation ; and as it will not be maintained , that matter can create itself : Much lefs , on the other hand , will that whimsical notion , which hath been ...
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... matter , uninformed , and unfurnished with any pofitive qualities , but fuch as were ef- féntial to it merely as matter , and neceffa- rily included in the idea of it . It was like- wife void of life and beauty , quite dead and inert ...
... matter , uninformed , and unfurnished with any pofitive qualities , but fuch as were ef- féntial to it merely as matter , and neceffa- rily included in the idea of it . It was like- wife void of life and beauty , quite dead and inert ...
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... matter , to one who fubmits to the authority of revelation . * Om includes both thefe fenfes , and may be tranflated either by the fpirit of God , or a frong wind . I have endeavoured to preserve both . The materiality of light was ...
... matter , to one who fubmits to the authority of revelation . * Om includes both thefe fenfes , and may be tranflated either by the fpirit of God , or a frong wind . I have endeavoured to preserve both . The materiality of light was ...
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... matter gravitates towards all matter ; fo all homogeneous parts of matter gravi- tate ftill more powerfully towards each other , whereby they are more closely uni- ted , and compacted together , according to their specific textures ...
... matter gravitates towards all matter ; fo all homogeneous parts of matter gravi- tate ftill more powerfully towards each other , whereby they are more closely uni- ted , and compacted together , according to their specific textures ...
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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...