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Page 91 - Behold, I go forward, but he is not there ; and backward, but I cannot perceive him : on the left hand, where he doth work, but I cannot behold him : he hideth himself on the right hand, that I cannot see him : but he knoweth the way that I take : when he hath tried me, I shall come forth as gold.
Page 153 - Thou hidest thy face, they are troubled : thou takest away their breath, they die, and return to their dust. Thou sendest forth thy spirit, they are created : and thou renewest the face of the earth.
Page 46 - These are spots in your feasts of charity, when they feast with you, feeding themselves without fear: clouds they are without water, carried about of winds; trees whose fruit withereth, without fruit, twice dead, plucked up by the roots; Raging waves of the sea, foaming out their own shame; wandering stars, to whom is reserved the blackness of darkness for ever.
Page 105 - The depth saith, It is not in me; and the sea saith, It is not with me. It cannot be gotten for gold, neither shall silver be weighed for the price thereof.
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Page 279 - Are not the species of objects seen with both eyes, united where the optic nerves meet, before they come into the brain, the fibres on the right side of both nerves, uniting there, and after union going thence into the brain in the nerve which is on the right side of the head, and the fibres on the left side of both nerves uniting in the same place, and after union going into the brain in the nerve which is on the left side of the head ; and these two nerves meeting in the brain...
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Bibliographic information
| Title | The Christian Philosopher: A Collection of the Best Discoveries in Nature, with Religious Improvements |
| Author | Cotton Mather |
| Publisher | Published at the Middlesex Bookstore. J. M'Kown, printer, 1815 |
| Original from | Harvard University |
| Digitized | 3 Jan 2007 |
| Length | 324 pages |
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