On the Proofs of Divine Power and Wisdom: Derived from the Study of Astronomy; and on the Evidence, Doctrines, and Precepts of Revealed Religion |
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... influence is not heard but felt . The psalmist then selects one striking instance from the natural world , the apparent course of the sun , as exemplifying the power of God . " In them hath he set a tabernacle for the sun ; which is as ...
... influence is not heard but felt . The psalmist then selects one striking instance from the natural world , the apparent course of the sun , as exemplifying the power of God . " In them hath he set a tabernacle for the sun ; which is as ...
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... influence over the affairs of the world . When once the heavens were thus viewed as controlling and indicating terrestrial events , the most ordinary phenomenon became an object of disquietude , and every deviation from the customary ...
... influence over the affairs of the world . When once the heavens were thus viewed as controlling and indicating terrestrial events , the most ordinary phenomenon became an object of disquietude , and every deviation from the customary ...
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... influence upon the heavenly bodies , and upon the waters of the ocean . Consider now , for a moment , how this one force , acting continually upon every atom of matter in the universe , and causing it to tend towards every other atom ...
... influence upon the heavenly bodies , and upon the waters of the ocean . Consider now , for a moment , how this one force , acting continually upon every atom of matter in the universe , and causing it to tend towards every other atom ...
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... influence one another's motions : and that all variations which would endanger the stability of the system are periodical . They increase only to a certain small extent , and then diminish by the same degrees . These two conditions ...
... influence one another's motions : and that all variations which would endanger the stability of the system are periodical . They increase only to a certain small extent , and then diminish by the same degrees . These two conditions ...
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... influence of the sun in diffusing light and heat would con- tinually diminish . Cold , such as now benumbs the polar regions of the earth in their dreary winter , would by degrees bind up the rivers and the seas and all animated beings ...
... influence of the sun in diffusing light and heat would con- tinually diminish . Cold , such as now benumbs the polar regions of the earth in their dreary winter , would by degrees bind up the rivers and the seas and all animated beings ...
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Page xxvii - For the grace of God that bringeth salvation hath appeared to all men, teaching us that, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we should live soberly, righteously, and godly, in this present world ; looking for that blessed hope, and the glorious appearing of the great God and our Saviour Jesus Christ ; who gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all iniquity, and purify unto himself a peculiar people, zealous of good works.
Page 168 - There went up a smoke out of his nostrils, and fire out of his mouth devoured ; coals were kindled by it.
Page 318 - For if any be a hearer of the word, and not a doer, he is like unto a man beholding his natural face in a glass, " for he beholdeth himself, and goeth his way, and straightway forgetteth what manner of man he was.
Page 171 - And immediately I was in the Spirit : and behold, a throne was set in heaven, and One sat on the throne. And he that sat was to look upon like a jasper and a sardine stone : and there was a rainbow round about the throne, in sight like unto an emerald.
Page xvi - Day unto day uttereth speech,- and night unto night sheweth knowledge. There is no speech nor language, where their voice is not heard. Their line is gone out through all the earth, and their words to the end of the world.
Page 161 - Brethren, I count not myself to have apprehended : but this one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things which are before, I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.
Page 284 - 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 169 - And mount Sinai was altogether on a smoke, because the Lord descended upon it in fire ; and the smoke thereof ascended as the smoke of a furnace, and the whole mount quaked greatly...
Page 251 - Blow ye the trumpet in Zion, and sound an alarm in my holy mountain : let all the inhabitants of the land tremble : for the day of the Lord cometh, for it is nigh at hand ; a day of darkness and of gloominess, a day of clouds and of thick darkness...
Page 45 - Thou coveredst it with the deep as with a garment: the waters stood above the mountains. At thy rebuke they fled; at the voice of thy thunder they hasted civ away. They go up by the mountains; they go down by the valleys unto the place which thou hast founded for them. Thou hast set a bound that they may not pass over; that they turn not again to cover the earth.