Man Primeval: Or, The Constitution and Primitive Condition of the Human Being, a Contribution to Theological Science |
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... called laws of nature were mere modes of Divine operation , known only to the mind of the Creator . But a being had now come who could consciously stand face to face with them , could conceive of them , employ them , and ascend in ...
... called laws of nature were mere modes of Divine operation , known only to the mind of the Creator . But a being had now come who could consciously stand face to face with them , could conceive of them , employ them , and ascend in ...
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... , however , are only incidental to the main sub- ject . As to the filling up of my outline in the following pages , with what may be called the Proem of man's eventful history , I leave it to speak for itself ; with no PREFACE . vil.
... , however , are only incidental to the main sub- ject . As to the filling up of my outline in the following pages , with what may be called the Proem of man's eventful history , I leave it to speak for itself ; with no PREFACE . vil.
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... called into existence , had vast spaces on its surface become " formless and waste , " and " darkness " had hung " on the face of the deep . " And as often had the creative will recalled it from chaos , and restored it to order and ...
... called into existence , had vast spaces on its surface become " formless and waste , " and " darkness " had hung " on the face of the deep . " And as often had the creative will recalled it from chaos , and restored it to order and ...
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... called into existence , whose generic name , as known to us , is " angels " a name descriptive , not of nature , but of office . And the nature of their connection with the system to which man belongs will hereafter form the subject of ...
... called into existence , whose generic name , as known to us , is " angels " a name descriptive , not of nature , but of office . And the nature of their connection with the system to which man belongs will hereafter form the subject of ...
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... called before his mind the long series of creation on creation , with extended intervals between , which had since then taken place , without admitting , long before he had arrived at the close of his retrospection , the all ...
... called before his mind the long series of creation on creation , with extended intervals between , which had since then taken place , without admitting , long before he had arrived at the close of his retrospection , the all ...
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Page 82 - The use of this FEIGNED HISTORY hath been to give some shadow of satisfaction to the mind of man in those points wherein the nature of things doth deny it, the world being in proportion inferior to the soul ; by reason whereof there is agreeable to the spirit of man a more ample greatness, a more exact goodness, and a more absolute variety than can be found in the nature of things.
Page 294 - ... in the entrance of philosophy, when the second causes, which are next unto the senses, do offer themselves to the mind of man, if it dwell and stay there, it may induce some oblivion of the highest cause ; but when a man passeth on...
Page 60 - We are thus taught the salutary lesson, that the capacity of thought is not to be constituted into the measure of existence ; and are warned from recognizing the domain of our knowledge as necessarily co-extensive with the horizon of our faith. And by a wonderful revelation, we are thus, in the very consciousness of our inability to conceive aught above the relative and finite, inspired with a belief in the existence of something unconditioned beyond the sphere of all comprehensible reality.
Page 241 - Because that which may be known of God is manifest in them, for God hath showed it unto them. For the invisible things of him, from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even his Eternal Power and God-head, so that they are without excuse...
Page 82 - And therefore it was ever thought to have some participation of divineness, because it doth raise and erect the mind, by submitting the shows of things to the desires of the mind; whereas reason doth buckle and bow the mind unto the nature of things.
Page 17 - And God blessed them, saying, Be fruitful, and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and let fowl multiply in the earth.
Page 14 - 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 186 - And the LORD God caused a deep sleep to fall upon the man, 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 the man, made he a woman, and brought her unto the man. And the man said, This is now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh : she shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of Man.
Page 186 - And God said, Behold, I have given you every herb bearing seed, which is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree, in the which is the fruit of a tree yielding seed ; to you it shall be for meat.
Page 165 - Let us make man in our image, after our likeness; and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the birds of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps upon the earth.