...him. (Chap, vii.) And he was six hundred years old, when the waters of the flood overflowed the earth. All the fountains of the great deep were broken up, and the flood-gates of heaven were opened. And the rain fell upon the earth forty days and forty nights. In...

...misunderstood ; that since the creation of animals the world has suffered by an universal inundation; that 'all the fountains of the great deep were broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened.' The manner in which this deluge was accomplished, is a problem that has long occupied the imaginations...

...they regarded it not; they laughed Noah to scorn, and grew desperate, and continued in sin. Suddenly all the fountains of the great deep were broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened. As they were eating and drinking, buying and selling, building, purchasing, stirring, and travelling;...

...wrecks of a more magnificent system, without casting a retrospective glance on that terrible day, when "all *' the fountains of the great deep were broken up, <{ and the windows of heaven opened"! And who that seriously and religiously contemplates those awful ruins, but must also look...

...probability been caused by those violent convulsions which " shook terribly the earth," when " the fountains of the great deep were broken up, and the windows of Heaven were opened," by the hand of Omnipotence. Sheffield, August, 1818. H. [To be continued.] ENQUIRY RESPECTING BUXTON...

...God ; and the whole world trembled upon the verge of unexpected destruction. Suddenly the fountains of the great deep were broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened. A tremendous flood deluged the surface of the globe ; and every soul perished, except the household...

...corresponding with the Scriptural account of that penal Flood, for the production of which the fountains of the Great Deep were broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened. To overspread the plains of the Arctic Circle with the bodies of elephants and rhinoceri, and with...

...the awful event which it relates, than satisfactory to a philosophical inquirer: " The " fountains of the great deep were broken " up, and the windows of heaven were " opened." From a description of this nature it can only be collected (what the historian is evidently most anxious...

...of your nakedness shall not appear." Thus Noah's ark was a shadow of Christ; for when the fountains of the great deep were broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened, and every living creature died in the storm and flood, a sanctuary was prepared for such as believed, where...

...God wait before he caused the flood to come? Seven days. 3. How did the flood begin * The fountains of the great deep were broken up and the windows of heaven were opened. 4. How long did the rain continue ? " Forty days and forty nights." 5. 6. Who was it that shut the...