| American periodicals - 1845 - 636 pages
...human discoveries seem to be made only far (he purpose of confirming more strongly the truihs cume from on high, and contained in the sacred writings."...the author of Genesis has had just reason to look opon man as the last that appeared of living beings, and to regard him as the limit and completion... | |
| George Taylor - Creation - 1851 - 302 pages
...fire in the earth; and science proves it by the natural phenomena discovered. When Herschel said, " that all human discoveries seem to be made only for...the purpose of confirming more strongly the truths contained in the sacred writings," he fully recognized the relation which exists between the truths... | |
| Methodist Church - 1862 - 718 pages
...those deemed truthful and clear, adding such others as seem necessary to complete the portraiture. "All human discoveries seem to be made only for the purpose of confirming more strongly the truths which come from on high, and are contained in the sacred writings." These words of Herschel have been... | |
| Methodist Church - 1862 - 712 pages
...those deemed truthful and clear, adding such others as seem necessary to complete the portraiture. "All human discoveries seem to be made only for the purpose of confirming more strongly the truths which come from on high, and are contained in the sacred writings." These words of Herschel have been... | |
| Henry Tullidge - Apologetics - 1863 - 454 pages
...enumerated. But enough have been given to justify the remark of the illustrious Sir John Herschel, "that all human discoveries seem to be made only for...high, and contained in the sacred writings." This does not, however, exhaust the testimony of Physical science to the Bible. Not only are the primary... | |
| Massachusetts Bible Society - Bible - 1870 - 716 pages
...spoken, and need only add a sentence from that illustrious astronomer, Sir John Herschel, who says : " All human discoveries seem to be made only for the purpose of confirming more and more strongly the truths contained in the holy Scriptures;" and this emphatic testimony from Professor... | |
| Luther Tracy Townsend - Future punishment - 1875 - 506 pages
...unbelievers, to have made mistakes concerning astronomy ; and yet the illustrious Sir John Herschel confesses that" all human discoveries seem to be made only for the purpose of confirming more and more strongly the truths con-: tained in the sacred Scriptures." Our own honored astronomer, QM... | |
| Samuel Austin Allibone - Quotations, English - 1876 - 768 pages
...men's lives, such as will answer all objections and exceptions of flesh and blood against it. HAMMOND. All human discoveries seem to be made only for the...from on high, and contained in the sacred writings. SIR JOHN FW HERSCHEL. With whom ordinary means will prevail, surely the power of the word of God, even... | |
| Daniel Worcester Faunce - 1877 - 264 pages
...are turned over and pondered, the more it will sustain and illustrate the sacred word." — Dana. " All human discoveries seem to be made only for the purpose of confirming the sacred Scriptures." — Herschel. " In my investigations of natural phenomena, when I can meet... | |
| James Baird McClure - 1879 - 284 pages
...that the flood of unbelief and ignorance shall never more go over the world. — Professor Hitchcock. ALL human discoveries seem to be made only for the purpose of confirming, more and more strongly, the truths contained in the sacred Scriptures. — Sir John Herschel. THE Bible... | |
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