Horæ Mosaicæ: Or, A Dissertation on the Credibility and Theology of the Pentateuch. Comprehending the Substance of Eight Lectures Read Before the University of Oxford, in the Year 1801; Pursuant to the Will of the Late Rev. John Bampton, A.M.F.C. and J. Rivington, 1818 - Bible |
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... heaven and earth . No mention is made of the real existence of any inferior deities ; nor is there even a hint given respecting the propriety of that canonization of mortals , which prevailed so universally in the mythology of the ...
... heaven and earth . No mention is made of the real existence of any inferior deities ; nor is there even a hint given respecting the propriety of that canonization of mortals , which prevailed so universally in the mythology of the ...
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... heavens and the earth were created in six days , by the agency of an all - wise and an all - powerful Being , who revealed himself to mankind by his incommu- nicable name of Jehovah . On the sixth of these days , man was formed in the ...
... heavens and the earth were created in six days , by the agency of an all - wise and an all - powerful Being , who revealed himself to mankind by his incommu- nicable name of Jehovah . On the sixth of these days , man was formed in the ...
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... heaven were opened . A tremendous flood deluged the surface of the globe ; and every soul perished , except the house- hold of one pious Patriarch . Inclosed within a capacious ark , this favoured family remained secure amidst the wreck ...
... heaven were opened . A tremendous flood deluged the surface of the globe ; and every soul perished , except the house- hold of one pious Patriarch . Inclosed within a capacious ark , this favoured family remained secure amidst the wreck ...
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... heaven ; and they were doomed to the very condition , against which they had attempted to guard . ' 6. The natural tendency to evil , so deeply rooted in the human breast , seems to have pró- duced at this period that remarkable system ...
... heaven ; and they were doomed to the very condition , against which they had attempted to guard . ' 6. The natural tendency to evil , so deeply rooted in the human breast , seems to have pró- duced at this period that remarkable system ...
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... heavens , disposed the world in regular order , and called the starry host into existence . As for the human species ... heaven , an orderly disposition of the habitable world , and a confession that the starry host was created by an ...
... heavens , disposed the world in regular order , and called the starry host into existence . As for the human species ... heaven , an orderly disposition of the habitable world , and a confession that the starry host was created by an ...
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