The religion of geology and its connected sciences. Author's copyr. ed., with an additional lecture1860 |
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... benevolent individuals be great public benefactors , who should endow professorships of natural religion in our ... Benevolence , why should I desire for it an ephemeral success among men ? AMHERST COLLEGE , May 1 , 1851 . PREFACE ...
... benevolent individuals be great public benefactors , who should endow professorships of natural religion in our ... Benevolence , why should I desire for it an ephemeral success among men ? AMHERST COLLEGE , May 1 , 1851 . PREFACE ...
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... BENEVOLENCE . 119 LECTURE VII . DIVINE BENEVOLENCE AS EXHIBITED IN A FALLEN WORLD 142 LECTURE VIII . UNITY OF THE DIVINE PLAN AND OPERATION.
... BENEVOLENCE . 119 LECTURE VII . DIVINE BENEVOLENCE AS EXHIBITED IN A FALLEN WORLD 142 LECTURE VIII . UNITY OF THE DIVINE PLAN AND OPERATION.
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... benevolent . Now , if we can derive from the records of geology striking and hitherto unthought - of manifestations of this attribute , we shall make the doctrine of Scripture more impressive ; or , if we appeal to the numerous changes ...
... benevolent . Now , if we can derive from the records of geology striking and hitherto unthought - of manifestations of this attribute , we shall make the doctrine of Scripture more impressive ; or , if we appeal to the numerous changes ...
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... benevolence of the Deity as geology ; and some of its facts bear strongly upon the objections to this doctrine . So important a subject will , therefore , occupy at least one or two lectures . In all ages , philosophers have , in one form.
... benevolence of the Deity as geology ; and some of its facts bear strongly upon the objections to this doctrine . So important a subject will , therefore , occupy at least one or two lectures . In all ages , philosophers have , in one form.
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... benevolent Supreme , out of that state of ruin to adjust the surface of the earth to its now existing condition - the whole extending through the period of six natural days . " " I am forming , " continues Dr. Smith , " no hypotheses in ...
... benevolent Supreme , out of that state of ruin to adjust the surface of the earth to its now existing condition - the whole extending through the period of six natural days . " " I am forming , " continues Dr. Smith , " no hypotheses in ...
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Page 289 - The children of this world marry, and are given in marriage : But they which shall be accounted worthy to obtain that world, and the resurrection from the dead, neither marry, nor are given in marriage: Neither can they die any more : for they are equal unto the angels ; and are the children of God, being the children of the resurrection.
Page 129 - Or those eighteen, upon whom the tower in Siloam fell, and slew them, think ye that they were sinners above all men that dwelt in Jerusalem? I tell you, Nay : but, except ye repent, ye shall all likewise perish.
Page 35 - These are the generations of the heavens and of the earth when they were created, in the day that the LORD God made the earth and the heavens.
Page 85 - And the waters prevailed exceedingly upon the earth ; and all the high hills, that were under the whole heaven, were covered.
Page 62 - And the Lord God said, Behold, the man is become as one of us, to know good and evil: and now, lest he put forth his hand, and take also of the tree of life...
Page 86 - Now when this was noised abroad, the multitude came together, and were confounded, because that every man heard them speak in his own language.
Page xiv - For though thou wash thee with nitre, and take thee much soap, yet thine iniquity is marked before me, saith the Lord God.
Page 171 - Before the mountains were brought forth, or ever the earth and the world were made, thou art God from everlasting, and world without end.
Page 86 - And saw heaven opened, and a certain vessel descending unto him, as it had been a great sheet knit at the four corners, and let down to the earth: Wherein were all manner of fourfooted beasts of the earth, and wild beasts, and creeping things, and fowls of the air.
Page 243 - And he answered and said unto them, I tell you that, if these should hold their peace, the stones would immediately cry out.