First Things: A Series of Lectures on the Great Facts and Moral Lessons First Revealed to Mankind, Volume 1M.W. Dodd, 1851 |
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... XI . MAN S FIRST SIN , . 316 CHAPTER XII . THE FIRST INTERVIEW BETWEEN GOD AND OUR FIRST PARENTS , AFTER THEIR APOSTASY , . 343 CHAPTER XIII . THE FIRST PROMISE , . 365 FIRST THINGS . CHAPTER I. God Bimself before All Things vi CONTENTS .
... XI . MAN S FIRST SIN , . 316 CHAPTER XII . THE FIRST INTERVIEW BETWEEN GOD AND OUR FIRST PARENTS , AFTER THEIR APOSTASY , . 343 CHAPTER XIII . THE FIRST PROMISE , . 365 FIRST THINGS . CHAPTER I. God Bimself before All Things vi CONTENTS .
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... parent link to support the whole . There is too a total want of testimony in favor of the hypothesis , that the existence of the world runs back to a remoter period than that spoken of by Moses . No human records reach farther back than ...
... parent link to support the whole . There is too a total want of testimony in favor of the hypothesis , that the existence of the world runs back to a remoter period than that spoken of by Moses . No human records reach farther back than ...
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... my nature and relations ? What are my responsi bilities ? Whence am I , and what is my destiny ? I am the progeny of my parents ; they of theirs ; and theirs of an ancestry which extends to a still CHAPTER III THE FIRST MAN,
... my nature and relations ? What are my responsi bilities ? Whence am I , and what is my destiny ? I am the progeny of my parents ; they of theirs ; and theirs of an ancestry which extends to a still CHAPTER III THE FIRST MAN,
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... Parent . Reason taught him , and his Maker taught him that " he was the son of God , " and came into ex- istence by the will and power of Him for whose pleasure he was created . The sacred writers most certainly do not use flattering ...
... Parent . Reason taught him , and his Maker taught him that " he was the son of God , " and came into ex- istence by the will and power of Him for whose pleasure he was created . The sacred writers most certainly do not use flattering ...
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... parent Spirit , never slumbers and never sleeps . If it were a piece of mechanical clock - work , it might run down and stop , and be wound up again . But the inaction of matter is not one of its properties ; and if it once runs down ...
... parent Spirit , never slumbers and never sleeps . If it were a piece of mechanical clock - work , it might run down and stop , and be wound up again . But the inaction of matter is not one of its properties ; and if it once runs down ...
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Page 62 - And God said, Let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven to divide the day from the night ; and let them be for signs and for seasons, and for days,
Page 39 - Where wast thou when I laid the foundations of the earth? declare, if thou hast understanding. Who hath laid the measures thereof, if thou knowest? or who hath stretched the line upon it? Whereupon are the foundations thereof fastened? or who laid the corner stone thereof; When the morning stars sang together, and all the Sons of God shouted for joy?
Page 346 - And the LORD God said unto the woman, What is this that thou hast done ? And the woman said, The serpent beguiled me, and I did eat.
Page 58 - And God said, Let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters. And God made the firmament, and divided the waters, which were under the firmament from the waters, which were above the firmament: and it was so. And God called the firmament Heaven. And the evening and the morning were the second day.
Page 134 - And the LORD God caused a deep sleep to fall upon Adam, and he slept: and he took one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh instead thereof; and the rib, which the LORD God had taken from man, made he a woman, and brought her unto the man.
Page 40 - Thou, even thou, art Lord alone: thou hast made heaven, the heaven of heavens, with all their host, the earth, and all things that are therein, the seas, and all that is therein, and thou preservest them all ; and the host of heaven worshippeth thee.
Page 300 - And Shem and Japheth took a garment, and laid it upon both their shoulders, and went backward, and covered the nakedness of their father ; and their faces were backward, and they saw not their father's nakedness.
Page 54 - IV •Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy. Six days shall thou labor, and do all thy work; but the seventh day is the Sabbath of the Lord thy God. In it thou shall not do any work...
Page 345 - And they heard the voice of the Lord God walking in the garden in the cool of the day : and Adam and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the Lord God amongst the trees of the garden.
Page 300 - And he said, BLESSED be the Lord God of Shem ; And Canaan shall be his servant. God shall enlarge Japheth, And he shall dwell in the tents of Shem ; And Canaan shall be his servant.