The Pre-Adamite Earth: Contributions to Theological ScienceGould, Kendall and Lincoln, 1850 - 300 pages |
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according activity adapted admit affirm 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 fact flora formation fossil geological geological period happiness hypothesis idea illustration implies infer infinite Infusoria inorganic instinct limited material universe matter means ment mind motion nebular hypothesis necessary object old red sandstone oolitic organic origination perfection period phenomena physical plants PRE-ADAMITE present principle produced progress proof properties purpose quadrupeds R. I. Murchison reason relation remark resemblance 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 47 - Remember the days of old, consider the years of many generations : ask thy father, and he will shew thee ; thy elders, and they will tell thee.
Page 76 - Whom a thousand years are as one day and one day as a thousand years...
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 269 - Of old hast THOU laid the foundation of the earth : And the heavens are the work of thy hands. They shall perish, but THOU shalt endure : Yea, all of them shall wax old like a garment ; As a vesture shalt THOU change them, and they shall be changed : But THOU art the same, And thy years shall have no end.
Page 29 - Christ : to the intent that now unto the principalities and powers in heavenly places might be known by the church the manifold wisdom of God, according to the eternal purpose which he purposed in Christ Jesus our Lord : in whom we have boldness and access with confidence by the faith of him.