 | New Church gen. confer - 1845 - 496 pages
...••;!• 8 creation : — . .,,,1J,. " The ordinary nation may, I think, not unjustly be deseribed as this,— that the Almighty Author produced the progenitors of all existing species of animated beings by some sort of personal or immediate exertion. * * Is it conceivable, as a fitting... | |
 | 1845 - 732 pages
...abhorrence of anthropomorphism, may be found on page 116. " It may now," says he, " be inquired — In what way was the creation of animated beings effected...some sort of personal or immediate exertion. But how can we suppose an immediate exertion of this creative power at one time to produce zoophytes, another... | |
 | 1845 - 688 pages
...abhorrence of anthropomorphism, may be found on page 116. " It may now," says he, " be inquired — In what way was the creation of animated beings effected...some sort of personal or immediate exertion. But how can we suppose an immediate exertion of this creative power at one time to produce zoophytes, another... | |
 | Samuel Richard Bosanquet - 1845 - 68 pages
...this so highly supported idea, we surely see cause for some reconsideration. It may now be inquired, In what way was the creation of animated beings effected...notion may, I think, be not unjustly described as this,—that the Almighty author produced the progenitors of all existing species by some sort of personal... | |
 | Henry Allon - 1845 - 690 pages
...confidence, and we repel the former with pity for those who could advance them. The ' ordinary notion' ' that the Almighty Author produced the progenitors...[by some sort of personal or immediate exertion,' is, we maintain, the expression of the humility of true science. It is not opposed to any of the known... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1845 - 342 pages
...supported idea, we surely"" "hefe~see cause for some re-consideration. It may now be inquired,—In what way was the creation of animated beings effected ? The ordinary notion may, I think, be described as this,—that ^thfi.Almighty..Aiitlior. .prodjiced .the .progenitors aLalLexisiing.species... | |
 | 1851 - 650 pages
...is an infidelity in the garb of science which speaks of it as a mere " notion," " that the Almighty produced the progenitors of all existing species by some sort of personal or immediate exertion." Man, like other tribes, owes his existence to self -executing laws. " Creation by law," is the easy... | |
 | 1847 - 820 pages
...in the particulars of this so highly supported idea we surely have cause for some re-consideration. In what way was the creation of animated beings effected...ordinary notion may, I think, be not unjustly described us this — that the Almighty produces the progenitors of all existing species by some sort of personal... | |
 | John Sheppard - 1870 - 374 pages
...entitled to the character of real theists. He writes of their "notion" as being this, "that the Almighty produced the progenitors of all existing species by some sort of personal or immediate exertion."2 Does he then imagine that Christians (or any other real theists, if there be such) believe... | |
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It may now be enquired, — in what way was the creation of animated beings effected? The ordinary notion may, I think, be not unjustly described as this, — that the Almighty Author produced the progenitors of all existing species by some sort of personal... 
