| Mary Somerville - 1834 - 390 pages
...contemporaneous with that of the Jest of the planets ; but they show that creation is the work of Him with whom 'a thousand years are as one day, and one day as a thousand years.' It thus appears that the theory of dynamics, founded upon terrestrial phenomena, is indispensable for... | |
| Mary Somerville - 1834 - 666 pages
...contemporaneous with that of the rest of the planets ; but they show that creation is the work of Him with whom ' a thousand years are as one day, and one day as a thousand years.' It thus appears that the theory of dynamics, founded upon terrestrial phenomena, is indispensable for... | |
| William Fulke - 1834 - 452 pages
...the time of the coming of Christ to judgment is accounted short in God's judgment, to whom a housand years are as one day, and one day as a thousand years. By his feigned miracles, or any figure of him in the scripture, it cannot be proved that he is a singular... | |
| John Wesley - 1836 - 350 pages
...imaginable substance, more dense than the one, and more firm than the other, may be, in the sight of Him to whom " a thousand years are as one day, and one day as a thousand years," and the universe is as a mote, and the mote as the universe, — every particle may be in reality,... | |
| Ebenezer Erskine, Donald Fraser - 1836 - 612 pages
...beginning of the verse, and a year at the end of it. A day and a year are one thing with the Lord; yea, a thousand years are as one day, and one day as a thousand years with him, being from everlasting to everlasting God, without any variableness or shadow of turning:... | |
| Thomas Dick - 1836 - 682 pages
...lofty One who inhabited eternity," before ihe universe was brought into existence, in whose sight " a thousand years are as one day, and one day as a thousand years." It represents him as fiáing the immensity of space with his presence, as having the most intimate... | |
| Mrs. Lincoln Phelps - 1836 - 610 pages
...says, " In the day in which God made the world," &c. It is also said in Scripture that " with the Lord a thousand years are as one day, and one day as a thousand years." Without attempting to go minutely into the subject of the earth's formation as explained and taught... | |
| Truth - 1837 - 566 pages
...fathers fell asleep all things continue as they were from the beginning of the creation.' What is time to God, ' with whom a thousand years are as one day, and one day as a thousand years ?' ' The Lord is now long suffering,' therefore he delays, ' not willing that any should perish, but... | |
| 1837 - 860 pages
...undertaking. But why, it may be asked, was it not effected in a moment ? Why did the Creator, to " whom a thousand years are as one day, and one day as a thousand years," occupy this lengthened period of time in accomplishing that, which only required the instantaneous... | |
| 1838 - 1074 pages
...to the distinction of time. But in the sight of him, who is the same yesterday, to-dayand forever, "a thousand years are as one day, and one day as a thousand years." Accordingly men are burned and fretful in their proceedings, impatient of delay, and ever hastening... | |
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