The Evidences of the Christian Religion: To which are Added Several Discourses Against Atheism and Infidelity, and in Defence of the Christian Revelation |
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... animals with which every part of the universe is fur- nished . The material world is only the fhell of the universe : the world of life are its inhabitants . If we confider those parts of the mate- rial world which lie the nearest to us ...
... animals with which every part of the universe is fur- nished . The material world is only the fhell of the universe : the world of life are its inhabitants . If we confider those parts of the mate- rial world which lie the nearest to us ...
Page 131
... animals with which it is ftocked . Every part of matter is peopled : every green leaf fwarms with inhabitants . There is scarce a fingle humour in the body of a man , or of any other animal , in which our glaffes do not discover myriads ...
... animals with which it is ftocked . Every part of matter is peopled : every green leaf fwarms with inhabitants . There is scarce a fingle humour in the body of a man , or of any other animal , in which our glaffes do not discover myriads ...
Page 132
... animals , and that there is no more of the one , than what is neceffary for the Existence of the other . Infinite Goodnefs is of fo communica- tive a nature , that it seems to delight in the conferring of Existence upon every degree of ...
... animals , and that there is no more of the one , than what is neceffary for the Existence of the other . Infinite Goodnefs is of fo communica- tive a nature , that it seems to delight in the conferring of Existence upon every degree of ...
Page 133
... animal enjoys beyond what appears in another , that though the sense in different animals be distinguished by the fame common de- nomination , it K3 be OF GOD IN THE CREATION . 133.
... animal enjoys beyond what appears in another , that though the sense in different animals be distinguished by the fame common de- nomination , it K3 be OF GOD IN THE CREATION . 133.
Page 134
... only made one species of animals , none of the reft would have enjoyed the happiness of existence ; he has , therefore , specified in his creation every degree of life , every capacity of his 134 THE POWER AND WISDOM.
... only made one species of animals , none of the reft would have enjoyed the happiness of existence ; he has , therefore , specified in his creation every degree of life , every capacity of his 134 THE POWER AND WISDOM.
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Page 98 - Behold, I go forward, but he is not there ; and backward, but I cannot perceive him : on the left hand, where he doth work, but I cannot behold him : he hideth himself on the right hand, that I cannot see him : but he knoweth the way that I take : when he hath tried me, I shall come forth as gold.
Page 231 - And they said one to another, Did not our heart burn within us, while he talked with us by the way, and while he opened to us the Scriptures?
Page 96 - We shall therefore utterly extinguish this melancholy thought, of our being overlooked by our Maker in the multiplicity of his works...
Page 137 - Such a nation might truly say to corruption, thou art my father, and to the worm, thou art my mother and my sister.
Page 93 - The chasm would be imperceptible to an eye that could take in the whole compass of nature, and pass from one end of the creation to the other...
Page 294 - I have set the Lord always before me : Because He is at my right hand, I shall not be moved. Therefore my heart is glad, and my glory rejoiceth: My flesh also shall rest in hope.
Page xvii - ... there were between God and our Saviour, in reference to his kingdom. We know not what need there was to set up a head and a chieftain, in opposition to " the prince of this world, the prince of the power of the air,
Page 252 - Their sound is gone out into all lands : and their words into the ends of the world. 5 In them hath he set a tabernacle for...
Page 115 - I knew a man in Christ above fourteen years ago, (whether in the body, I cannot tell ; or whether out of the body, I cannot tell : God knoweth ;) such an one caught up to the third heaven.
Page 137 - THOSE who were skilful in anatomy, among the ancients, concluded, from the outward and inward make of an human body, that it was the work of a Being transcendently wise and powerful. As the world grew more enlightened in this art, their discoveries gave them fresh opportunities of admiring the conduct of Providence in the formation of a human body.