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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... Sacred Writings , the first great realities re- vealed to men . Of these the adorable and ever - blessed God has the first place . In every view he has the pre- eminence . By the great word GoD , the Scriptures mean that intelligent ...
... Sacred Writings , the first great realities re- vealed to men . Of these the adorable and ever - blessed God has the first place . In every view he has the pre- eminence . By the great word GoD , the Scriptures mean that intelligent ...
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... sacred wri- tings , we find such declarations as these : “ The Lord hath made all things for himself . " - " I have created him for my glory . " - " I wrought for my name's sake that it should not be polluted before the heathen ...
... sacred wri- tings , we find such declarations as these : “ The Lord hath made all things for himself . " - " I have created him for my glory . " - " I wrought for my name's sake that it should not be polluted before the heathen ...
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... sacred writers instruct us , that " through FAITH we understand , that the worlds were framed by the word of God . " The Creator himself knows how the worlds were created ; and he has told us . He knows the influence of second causes ...
... sacred writers instruct us , that " through FAITH we understand , that the worlds were framed by the word of God . " The Creator himself knows how the worlds were created ; and he has told us . He knows the influence of second causes ...
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... sacred writings , we may be permitted here to remark , that even upon the hypothesis that the earth ex- hibits evidence of its formation through the power of natural causes , it does not follow that it was not formed in six days ...
... sacred writings , we may be permitted here to remark , that even upon the hypothesis that the earth ex- hibits evidence of its formation through the power of natural causes , it does not follow that it was not formed in six days ...
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... sacred record , so much the worse for human science . " Heaven and earth shall pass away , but God's word shall not pass away . " We are not a little alarmed at the tendency of the age to reduce the great facts narrated in the Bible to ...
... sacred record , so much the worse for human science . " Heaven and earth shall pass away , but God's word shall not pass away . " We are not a little alarmed at the tendency of the age to reduce the great facts narrated in the Bible to ...
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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.