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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... relations which exist between God and man , giving , as they do , additional force to these divine claims . They are not abstract truths which we have been utter- ing ; they are truths addressed to every man's conscience ; the ...
... relations which exist between God and man , giving , as they do , additional force to these divine claims . They are not abstract truths which we have been utter- ing ; they are truths addressed to every man's conscience ; the ...
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... relation to " the heavens and the earth , " it is at least safe to say we are utterly ignorant . To erect any theory at all upon such an hypothesis , is ut- terly unphilosophical . So far as the Creator him- self has informed us , the ...
... relation to " the heavens and the earth , " it is at least safe to say we are utterly ignorant . To erect any theory at all upon such an hypothesis , is ut- terly unphilosophical . So far as the Creator him- self has informed us , the ...
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... relations to the existing state of things has not even been conjectured , how can we expect to speculate rightly and securely respect- ing the history of the whole of our globe ? Geologists have only just thrown open the door of a vast ...
... relations to the existing state of things has not even been conjectured , how can we expect to speculate rightly and securely respect- ing the history of the whole of our globe ? Geologists have only just thrown open the door of a vast ...
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... 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,
... 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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... relations to his Maker , and the biddings of his conscience told him that his Maker's will was law . He could not divest himself of the feel- ing that he was bound to do what God required , and to abstain from doing what God forbade ...
... relations to his Maker , and the biddings of his conscience told him that his Maker's will was law . He could not divest himself of the feel- ing that he was bound to do what God required , and to abstain from doing what God forbade ...
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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.