The Pre-Adamite Earth: Contributions to Theological ScienceGould and Lincoln, 1854 - 300 pages |
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according activity adapted admit affirm animal animal kingdom animalcules appear arrangement attainment benevolence body Bridgewater Treatise carboniferous cause changes chemical chemical affinity conceive constitution crea created creative Deity dependent dicotyledonous display distinct Divine all-sufficiency Divine manifestation Divine nature earth effect end of creation enjoyment eternity everything evidence exhibit existence expect fact flora formation fossil geological geological period happiness hypothesis idea illustration infer infinite inorganic instinct limited material universe matter means ment mind motion nebular hypothesis necessary object Old Red Sandstone organic original perfection period phenomena plants pre-Adamite present principle produced progress proof properties Puritan Recorder purpose R. I. Murchison reason relation remark resemblance Scripture sensation sense Silurian space species strata subordinate subservient succession supposed things tion transmutation of species truth ultimate end Uranus vegetable verse volition well-being whole wisdom
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Page 150 - If the whole body were an eye, where were the hearing? If the whole were hearing, where were the smelling? But now hath God set the members every one of them in the body, as it hath pleased him.
Page 47 - When the Most High divided to the nations their inheritance, when he separated the sons of Adam, he set the bounds of the people according to the number of the children of Israel.
Page 86 - Hast thou not known ? hast thou not heard, that the Everlasting God, the LORD, the Creator of the ends of the earth, fainteth not, neither is weary ? there is no searching of His understanding.
Page 25 - Christ, both which are in heaven, and which are on earth, even in him : in whom also we have obtained an inheritance, being predestinated according to the purpose of Him who worketh all things according to the counsel of his own will, that we should be to the praise of his glory who first trusted in Christ
Page 76 - Whom a thousand years are as one day and one day as a thousand years...
Page 48 - He shall come to be glorified in his saints, and admired in all them that believe in that day.
Page 30 - In the beginning was the Logos, and the Logos was with God, and the Logos was God.
Page 212 - Now, if nature should intermit her course, and leave altogether, though it were but for a while, the observation of her own laws; if those principal and mother elements of the world, whereof all things in this lower world are made, should lose the qualities which now they have ; if the frame of that heavenly arch erected over our heads should loosen and dissolve itself ; if celestial spheres should forget their wonted motions, and by irregular...
Page 202 - Thus all lower natures find their highest good in semblances and seekings of that which is higher and better. All things strive to ascend, and ascend in their striving. And shall man alone stoop? Shall his pursuits and desires, the reflections of his inward life, be like the reflected image of a tree on the edge of a pool, that grows downward, and seeks a mock heaven in the unstable element beneath it, in...