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... cause for which I plead , if I did not avail myself of a communication which , to well - informed per- sons , will have the appropriate interest in a very high degree . It is a part of a letter with which SIR JOHN HERSCHEL honoured me ...
... cause for which I plead , if I did not avail myself of a communication which , to well - informed per- sons , will have the appropriate interest in a very high degree . It is a part of a letter with which SIR JOHN HERSCHEL honoured me ...
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... causes , by which the Supreme Cause accomplishes his purposes of wisdom and righteousness . We see those causes to be the same in their nature , and similar in their mode of operation now , as in countless ages past ; though differing ...
... causes , by which the Supreme Cause accomplishes his purposes of wisdom and righteousness . We see those causes to be the same in their nature , and similar in their mode of operation now , as in countless ages past ; though differing ...
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... of the power , wisdom , and goodness of HIM who exists independently and by necessity of nature , possessed of all perfections , the designing cause and active sustainer of all other beings , 2 COMPREHENSION AND DESIGN .
... of the power , wisdom , and goodness of HIM who exists independently and by necessity of nature , possessed of all perfections , the designing cause and active sustainer of all other beings , 2 COMPREHENSION AND DESIGN .
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John Pye Smith. designing cause and active sustainer of all other beings , and to whom it is equally our duty and our happiness to render the highest veneration and love and homage . It is not less obvious , that this study cannot be ...
John Pye Smith. designing cause and active sustainer of all other beings , and to whom it is equally our duty and our happiness to render the highest veneration and love and homage . It is not less obvious , that this study cannot be ...
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... cause which he was called to try , yet imagining himself to know all about it , and determined to shut his cars against the evidence . 66 * Fourth ed . The labours of the most distinguished men , in Geology and Natural History ...
... cause which he was called to try , yet imagining himself to know all about it , and determined to shut his cars against the evidence . 66 * Fourth ed . The labours of the most distinguished men , in Geology and Natural History ...
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Page 73 - In the six hundredth year of Noah's life, in the second month, the seventeenth day of the month, the same day were all the fountains of the great deep broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened.
Page 179 - And the Lord said unto Moses, I have seen this people, and, behold, it is a stiff-necked people ; now, therefore, let me alone, that my wrath may wax hot against them, and that I may consume them ; and I will make of thee a great nation.
Page 177 - For they got not the land in possession by their own sword, neither did their own arm save them: but thy right hand, and thine arm, and the light of thy countenance, because thou hadst a favour unto them.
Page 190 - There went up a smoke out of his nostrils, and fire out of his mouth devoured : coals were kindled by it.
Page 301 - And men shall speak of the might of thy terrible acts: And I will declare thy greatness. They shall abundantly utter the memory of thy great goodness, And shall sing of thy righteousness.
Page 74 - And the waters decreased continually until the tenth month: in the tenth month, on the first day of the month, were the tops of the mountains seen.
Page 177 - Is Ephraim my dear son ? is he a pleasant child ? for since I spake against him, I do earnestly remember him still : therefore my bowels are troubled for him ; I will surely have mercy upon him, saith the Lord.
Page 204 - And the Lord God said, It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him a help meet for him.
Page 178 - And God saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually. And it repented the Lord that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him at his heart.
Page 74 - And it came to pass in the six hundredth and first year, in the first month, the first day of the month, the waters were dried up from off the earth: and Noah removed the covering of the ark, and looked and, behold, the face of the ground was dry. And in the second month, on the seven and twentieth day of the month, was the earth dried. And God spake unto Noah, saying, Go forth of the ark, thou, and thy wife, and thy sons, and thy sons