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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... work ; together with its various changes and revolutions ! For thy counsel who hath known , except thou give wisdom , and fend thy holy Spirit from above * ? * Wisdom , ix . 17 . CHAP . [ 15 ] CHA P. 1 . OF THE CREATION 14 INTRODUCTION .
... work ; together with its various changes and revolutions ! For thy counsel who hath known , except thou give wisdom , and fend thy holy Spirit from above * ? * Wisdom , ix . 17 . CHAP . [ 15 ] CHA P. 1 . OF THE CREATION 14 INTRODUCTION .
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... known to rife to any confi- derable height ; and fuch storms are more likely to throw down rocks and mountains by their violence , than to raise them . Where the land gains upon the fea , com- mon obfervation informs us , that it is fo ...
... known to rife to any confi- derable height ; and fuch storms are more likely to throw down rocks and mountains by their violence , than to raise them . Where the land gains upon the fea , com- mon obfervation informs us , that it is fo ...
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... , and is very defcriptive in his account of them ; they being all well known in his time , and all keeping their diftinct courfes , till they met all together , 4 much much lower down than they do at present ; of OF THE EARTH . III.
... , and is very defcriptive in his account of them ; they being all well known in his time , and all keeping their diftinct courfes , till they met all together , 4 much much lower down than they do at present ; of OF THE EARTH . III.
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... known , that the facred writer , not thinking it neceffary to add any description of it , contented himfelf with the bare mention of its name . Its Hebrew name , is derived from 15 , to divide ; this . river being remarkable for its ...
... known , that the facred writer , not thinking it neceffary to add any description of it , contented himfelf with the bare mention of its name . Its Hebrew name , is derived from 15 , to divide ; this . river being remarkable for its ...
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... known ; and , above all the reft , might be thought to merit description . But we do not find any ; nor is it faid what be- came of it , after it went to water the garden ; nor whither it bent its courfe from thence . This I know not ...
... known ; and , above all the reft , might be thought to merit description . But we do not find any ; nor is it faid what be- came of it , after it went to water the garden ; nor whither it bent its courfe from thence . This I know not ...
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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...