...but his station before God remains unchanged, his importance undiminished. Dead to us, he lives to mon instincts of the dullest animals, are employed to expose the greater thoughtle Can we meditate upon the first man who was created upon the earth, without rising in our thoughts to...

...measure power with a line ; and reckon wisdom by the tables of chronology ; but when the work is His, " with whom a thousand years are as one day, and one day as a thousand years," we find also that space is not an element of the wonderful in His works ; or time, of the wisdom with...

...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...

...there is ground to believe that the formation of the earth was contemporaneous with that of the rest of the planets ; but they show that creation is the...are as one day, and one day as a thousand years.'' In the work now brought to a conclusion, it has been necessary to select from the whole circle of the...

...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,...

...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 knowledge...

...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:...

...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...

...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...

...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...