The Creative Week: Being a Secular Exposition of the Mosaic Record of Creation. By the Author of “Commentaries on the Georgics of Virgil” and Other WorksMaclachlan & Stewart, 1856 - 402 pages |
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... crea- tion had been shorn of its chief interést and attrac- tions as if the work of the Almighty Creator had been robbed of half its greatness , and half its glory ; and the sacred author Moses brought down almost to a level with ...
... crea- tion had been shorn of its chief interést and attrac- tions as if the work of the Almighty Creator had been robbed of half its greatness , and half its glory ; and the sacred author Moses brought down almost to a level with ...
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... crea- tion . All the ado that has been made , and all the difficulties that have been felt , in essay after essay , to arrive at the mind of the Spirit as revealed in this chapter , may be referred chiefly to three causes , all of them ...
... crea- tion . All the ado that has been made , and all the difficulties that have been felt , in essay after essay , to arrive at the mind of the Spirit as revealed in this chapter , may be referred chiefly to three causes , all of them ...
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... crea- tion out of nothing is not spoken of in that place , nor is ever once alluded to in any other passage of either the Old or the New Testament . However , this doc- trine of creation out of nothing in the space of INTRODUCTION .
... crea- tion out of nothing is not spoken of in that place , nor is ever once alluded to in any other passage of either the Old or the New Testament . However , this doc- trine of creation out of nothing in the space of INTRODUCTION .
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... crea- tive week . The a priori party , again , asserts that " the beginning " goes back to the time in the past eternity when , according to some of them , our globe , or the matter of our globe , was created out of nothing -according ...
... crea- tive week . The a priori party , again , asserts that " the beginning " goes back to the time in the past eternity when , according to some of them , our globe , or the matter of our globe , was created out of nothing -according ...
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... crea- tions of the same high nature as the formation of the plants and animals out of the unorganized dust of the ground . But , notwithstanding this perceptible differ- ence , among the single acts which make up the works done in the ...
... crea- tions of the same high nature as the formation of the plants and animals out of the unorganized dust of the ground . But , notwithstanding this perceptible differ- ence , among the single acts which make up the works done in the ...
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