Sacred History of the Deluge Illustrated: And Corroborated by Tradition, Mythology, and Geology. Adapted to Courses of Scripture Study in Colleges and Higher Seminaries, and to General Use |
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... imagination . - Destruction of the world designed in mercy . - Fate of the world without reforma- tion . - Noah an exception to the general depravity . - His character - his justice - his perfection - illustrated . — Ex- planation of ...
... imagination . - Destruction of the world designed in mercy . - Fate of the world without reforma- tion . - Noah an exception to the general depravity . - His character - his justice - his perfection - illustrated . — Ex- planation of ...
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... imagination of the orientals especially delights , and we shall be prepared to understand the force and the beauty of the opening words of our history . I allude to their frequent use of a figure founded in an analogy to the natural ...
... imagination of the orientals especially delights , and we shall be prepared to understand the force and the beauty of the opening words of our history . I allude to their frequent use of a figure founded in an analogy to the natural ...
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... imagination , and picture to ourselves the antediluvian condition of society . The career of human life , now , finished ere it is hardly yet begun , was then lengthened out to the extent of almost a thousand years . The very ele- ments ...
... imagination , and picture to ourselves the antediluvian condition of society . The career of human life , now , finished ere it is hardly yet begun , was then lengthened out to the extent of almost a thousand years . The very ele- ments ...
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... , acquire ! Shall we allow undue license to the imagination , if we suppose , that the antedilu- vians , though surrounded by sufficient incentives to good , and without excuse for refusing to love , 38 HISTORY OF THE DELUGE.
... , acquire ! Shall we allow undue license to the imagination , if we suppose , that the antedilu- vians , though surrounded by sufficient incentives to good , and without excuse for refusing to love , 38 HISTORY OF THE DELUGE.
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... imagination of the thoughts of man's heart was only evil continually . " " The earth also was corrupt before God . " In the sight of God , the moral constitution of the whole human race had lost every principle of soundness and vitality ...
... imagination of the thoughts of man's heart was only evil continually . " " The earth also was corrupt before God . " In the sight of God , the moral constitution of the whole human race had lost every principle of soundness and vitality ...
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Page 78 - And above the firmament that was over their heads was the likeness of a throne, as the appearance of a sapphire stone : and upon the likeness of the throne was the likeness as the appearance of a man above upon it.
Page 75 - And the fear of you and the dread of you shall be upon every beast of the earth, and upon every fowl of the air, upon all that moveth upon the earth, and upon all the fishea of the sea ; into your hand are they delivered.
Page 65 - And all flesh died that moved upon the earth, both of fowl, and of cattle, and of beast, and of every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth, and every man: all in whose nostrils was the breath of life, of all that was in the dry land, died.
Page 85 - And Noah began to be an husbandman, and he planted a vineyard; And he drank of the wine, and was drunken; and he was uncovered within his tent.
Page 79 - As the appearance of the bow that is in the cloud in the day of rain, so was the appearance of the brightness round about.
Page 73 - And the Lord smelled a sweet savour ; and the Lord said in his heart, I will not again curse the ground any more for man's sake ; for the imagination of man's heart is evil from his youth ; neither will I again smite any more every thing living, as I have done.
Page 96 - Saviour, 3 knowing this first, that there shall come in the last days scoffers, walking after their own lusts, 'and saying, 'Where is the promise of his coming?' For since the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as they were from the beginning of the creation.
Page 77 - And God spake unto Noah, and to his sons with him, saying, And I, behold, I establish my covenant with you, and with your seed after you ; and with every living creature that Is with you, of the fowl, of the cattle, and of every beast of the earth with you ; 15 from all that go out of the ark, to every beast of the earth.
Page 129 - A little learning is a dangerous thing; Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring: There shallow draughts intoxicate the brain. And drinking largely sobers us again.
Page 79 - For this is as the waters of Noah unto me: for as I have sworn that the waters of Noah should no more go over the earth; so have I sworn that I would not be wroth with thee, nor rebuke thee.