The Sacred and Profane History of the World Connected: From the Creation of the World to the Dissolution of the Assyrian Empire at the Death of Sardanapalus, and to the Declension of the Kingdoms of Judah and Israel Under the Reigns of Ahaz and Pekah: Including the Dissertation on the Creation and Fall of Man, Volume 4Baynes, 1808 - History, Ancient |
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... nature of things , was not , perhaps , as modern writers too has- tily imagine , the customary practice in the age of Moses ; but rather began after his 2 Tim . iii . 16 , 17 . time . The poet's rule may be a very good viii Introduction ...
... nature of things , was not , perhaps , as modern writers too has- tily imagine , the customary practice in the age of Moses ; but rather began after his 2 Tim . iii . 16 , 17 . time . The poet's rule may be a very good viii Introduction ...
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... nature effecting , without choice or intelli- gence , what blindly by a mechanical event of things arose from them . ' He talks indeed of a To VεUμα , what we might think to call a spirit ; tells us that it was in love with its own ...
... nature effecting , without choice or intelli- gence , what blindly by a mechanical event of things arose from them . ' He talks indeed of a To VεUμα , what we might think to call a spirit ; tells us that it was in love with its own ...
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... nature , than what might cause the voice of thunder and the flashes of lightning to be heard and seen from them . Such were the ancient dogmata of Egypt , and it is not so great a wonder they were so , con- sidering the low state of ...
... nature , than what might cause the voice of thunder and the flashes of lightning to be heard and seen from them . Such were the ancient dogmata of Egypt , and it is not so great a wonder they were so , con- sidering the low state of ...
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... nature ; their worship and religion was according to it . But Moses , though learned in all the wisdom of the Egyptians , was also better instructed , and taught in opposition to the Egyptian literature , that , in the begin- ning , God ...
... nature ; their worship and religion was according to it . But Moses , though learned in all the wisdom of the Egyptians , was also better instructed , and taught in opposition to the Egyptian literature , that , in the begin- ning , God ...
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... nature , without a personal agent ruling in them . But , conceiving that the Israelites had their God , they reputed that every na- tion had its own ; ' and looking back to their most early progenitors , who had been the glory of their ...
... nature , without a personal agent ruling in them . But , conceiving that the Israelites had their God , they reputed that every na- tion had its own ; ' and looking back to their most early progenitors , who had been the glory of their ...
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Page cxviii - Nevertheless death reigned from Adam to Moses, even over them that had not sinned after the similitude of Adam's transgression, who is the figure of him that was to come.
Page 10 - And out of the ground the LORD God formed every beast of the field, and every fowl of the air; and brought them unto Adam to see what he would call them: and whatsoever Adam called every living creature, that was the name thereof.
Page xliii - And the LORD said unto Moses, Stretch out thine hand toward heaven, that there may be darkness over the land of Egypt, even darkness which may be felt.
Page 156 - And the LORD God said unto the serpent, Because thou hast done this, thou art cursed above all cattle, and above every beast of the field; upon thy belly shalt thou go, and dust shalt thou eat all the days of thy life : and I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed; it shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heeL...
Page 1 - 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 civ - ... how shall we escape, if we neglect so great salvation; which at the first began to be spoken by the Lord, and was confirmed unto us by them that heard him; God also bearing them witness, both with signs and wonders, and with divers miracles, and gifts of the Holy Ghost, according to his own will?
Page 68 - Why form'd so weak, so little, and so blind? First, if thou canst, the harder reason guess, Why form'd no weaker, blinder, and no less?
Page lv - For there are three that bear record in heaven, the Father, the Word, and the Holy Ghost : and these three are one. And there are three that bear witness in the earth, the spirit, and the water, and the blood : and these three agree in one.
Page 35 - And out of the ground made the Lord God to grow every tree that is pleasant to the sight and good for food ; the tree of life also in the midst of the garden, and the tree of knowledge of good and evil.
Page cxxxii - And to every beast of the earth, and to every fowl of the air, and to every thing that creepeth upon the earth, wherein there is life, I have given every green herb for meat: and it was so.