The Pre-Adamite Earth: Contributions to Theological ScienceGould and Lincoln, 1851 - 300 páginas |
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... causes of those facts ; and when they have succeeded in developing any of the sciences , they then look for the ... cause to effect , they were , not questioning Nature , but answering for her ; legislating , in effect , where God ...
... causes of those facts ; and when they have succeeded in developing any of the sciences , they then look for the ... cause to effect , they were , not questioning Nature , but answering for her ; legislating , in effect , where God ...
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... cause , exists merely for the sake of something else is not final in itself , but simply a means to- wards an end ; and in the accomplishment of that end , it con- summates its own perfection . " From which it would follow , that ...
... cause , exists merely for the sake of something else is not final in itself , but simply a means to- wards an end ; and in the accomplishment of that end , it con- summates its own perfection . " From which it would follow , that ...
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... cause should produce an infinite effect . - We reply , that an exercise of the Divine perfections prop- erly infinite can only take place in the Divine nature itself ; and possibly involves the mystery of a plurality of distinctions in ...
... cause should produce an infinite effect . - We reply , that an exercise of the Divine perfections prop- erly infinite can only take place in the Divine nature itself ; and possibly involves the mystery of a plurality of distinctions in ...
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... cause , exists , therefore , in absolute dependence on the effect for the reality of its existence . An absolute cause , in truth , only exists in its effects ; it never is , it always becomes . " 1 The God of the Bible , on the ...
... cause , exists , therefore , in absolute dependence on the effect for the reality of its existence . An absolute cause , in truth , only exists in its effects ; it never is , it always becomes . " 1 The God of the Bible , on the ...
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... cause is necessarily the first end answered by an effect , so the purpose of making this manifestation must have been , in its own right , the first pur- pose in the mind of God . To speak , indeed , as if the purposes of God observed ...
... cause is necessarily the first end answered by an effect , so the purpose of making this manifestation must have been , in its own right , the first pur- pose in the mind of God . To speak , indeed , as if the purposes of God observed ...
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according activity adapted admit affirm animal kingdom animalcules answer appear arrangement attainment body Bridgewater Treatise carbonic acid carboniferous cause changes chemical chemical affinity conceive constitution crea created creative Deity dependent dicotyledonous display distinct Divine all-sufficiency Divine manifestation Divine Nature earth effect end of creation enjoyment eternity everything evidence exhibit existence expect fact flora formation fossil geological geological period hypothesis idea illustration infer infinite inorganic instinct kind material universe matter means ment mind motion nebular hypothesis necessary object old red sandstone organic origin perfection period phenomena plants PRE-ADAMITE present principle produced progress proof properties purpose R. I. Murchison reason relation remark resemblance sense Silurian space species stage of creation strata subordination subservient succession supposed things tion transmutation of species truth ultimate end Uranus vegetable verse volition well-being whole wisdom zoophytes
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Página 47 - When the Most High divided to the nations their inheritance, when he separated the sons of Adam, he set the bounds of the people according to the number of the children of Israel.
Página 82 - Hast thou not known ? hast thou not heard, that the Everlasting God, the LORD, the Creator of the ends of the earth, fainteth not, neither is weary ? there is no searching of His understanding.
Página 47 - Remember the days of old, consider the years of many generations : ask thy father, and he will shew thee ; thy elders, and they will tell thee.
Página 48 - He shall come to be glorified in his saints, and admired in all them that believe in that day.
Página 30 - In the beginning was the Logos, and the Logos was with God, and the Logos was God.
Página 202 - Now, if nature should intermit her course, and leave altogether, though it were but for a while, the observation of her own laws; if those principal and mother elements of the world, whereof all things in this lower world are made, should lose the qualities which now they have ; if the frame of that heavenly arch erected over our heads should loosen and dissolve itself ; if celestial spheres should forget their wonted motions, and by irregular...
Página 251 - Of old hast THOU laid the foundation of the earth : And the heavens are the work of thy hands. They shall perish, but THOU shalt endure : Yea, all of them shall wax old like a garment ; As a vesture shalt THOU change them, and they shall be changed : But THOU art the same, And thy years shall have no end.
Página 29 - Christ : to the intent that now unto the principalities and powers in heavenly places might be known by the church the manifold wisdom of God, according to the eternal purpose which he purposed in Christ Jesus our Lord : in whom we have boldness and access with confidence by the faith of him.
Página 142 - If the whole body were an eye, where were the hearing? If the whole were hearing, where were the smelling? But now hath God set the members every one of them in the body, as it hath pleased him.
Página 121 - And though every true Step made in this Philosophy brings us not immediately to the Knowledge of the first Cause, yet it brings us nearer .to it, and on that account is to be highly valued.