Discourses on the Christian revelation, viewed in connection with the modern astronomyR. Carter, 1840 - Presbyterian Church |
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... mighty expanse which spreads above it and around it . He wings his way through space , and wanders in thought over its immeasurable regions . Instead of a dark and unpeopled solitude , he sees it crowded with splendour , and filled with ...
... mighty expanse which spreads above it and around it . He wings his way through space , and wanders in thought over its immeasurable regions . Instead of a dark and unpeopled solitude , he sees it crowded with splendour , and filled with ...
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... mighty works ; and that to this earth alone belongs the bloom of vegetation , or the blessedness of life , or the dignity of rational and immortal existence ? But this is not all . We have something more than the mere magnitude of the ...
... mighty works ; and that to this earth alone belongs the bloom of vegetation , or the blessedness of life , or the dignity of rational and immortal existence ? But this is not all . We have something more than the mere magnitude of the ...
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... mighty empire of nature ; that the greater part of creation is an empty parade ; and that not a worshipper of the Divinity is to be found through the wide extent of yon vast and immeasurable regions ? It lends a delightful confirmation ...
... mighty empire of nature ; that the greater part of creation is an empty parade ; and that not a worshipper of the Divinity is to be found through the wide extent of yon vast and immeasurable regions ? It lends a delightful confirmation ...
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... mighty tracts , and we may see them left naked and colourless after the flush of vegetation has disappeared . In the progress of years or of centuries , we may trace the hand of cultivation spreading a new aspect over some portion of a ...
... mighty tracts , and we may see them left naked and colourless after the flush of vegetation has disappeared . In the progress of years or of centuries , we may trace the hand of cultivation spreading a new aspect over some portion of a ...
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... mighty burden of oceans and continents , instead of being distinguished from the others , is among the least of them ; and , from some of the more distant planets , would not occupy a visible point in the concave of their firmament ...
... mighty burden of oceans and continents , instead of being distinguished from the others , is among the least of them ; and , from some of the more distant planets , would not occupy a visible point in the concave of their firmament ...
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Page 191 - The same shall drink of the wine of the wrath of God, which is poured out without mixture into the cup of his indignation; and he shall be tormented with fire and brimstone in the presence of the holy angels, and in the presence of the Lamb...
Page 188 - Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow; they toil not, neither do they spin: And yet I say unto you, That even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these. Wherefore, if God so clothe the grass of the field, which today is, and tomorrow is cast into the oven, shall he not much more clothe you, O ye of little faith?
Page 360 - For he is the minister of God to thee for good. But if thou do that which is evil, be afraid; for he beareth not the sword in vain: for he is the minister of God, a revenger to execute wrath upon him that doeth evil. Wherefore ye must needs be subject, not only for wrath, but also for conscience sake.
Page 194 - Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it, 45 And because I tell you the truth, ye believe me not.
Page 190 - But ye are come unto Mount Zion ; and unto the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem ; and to an innumerable company of angels ; to the general assembly and church of the first-born, which are written in heaven ; and to God, the Judge of all; and to the spirits of just men made perfect...
Page 191 - And sware by him that liveth for ever and ever, who created heaven, and the things that therein are, and the earth, and the things that therein are, and the sea, and the things which are therein, that there should be time no longer...
Page 186 - And men shall speak of the might of Thy terrible acts : And I will declare Thy greatness.
Page 194 - ... feet. But Peter said, Ananias, why hath Satan filled thine heart to lie to the Holy Ghost, and to keep back part of the price of the land? Whiles it remained, was it not thine own? and after it was sold, was it not in thine own power ? why hast thou conceived this thing in thine heart ? thou hast not lied unto men, but unto God.
Page 199 - For if any be a hearer of the word, and not a doer, he is like unto a man beholding his natural face in a glass, " for he beholdeth himself, and goeth his way, and straightway forgetteth what manner of man he was.
Page 189 - Also I say unto you, Whosoever shall confess me before men, him shall the Son of man also confess before the angels of God: but he that denieth me before men shall be denied before the angels of God.