The Religious Philosopher: Or, The Right Use of Contemplating the Works of the Creator ... Designed for the Conviction of Atheists and Intidels, Volume 2

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Convictions from thence
604
It is still uncertain what Fire is Sect V The first Notion concerning Fire
605
The firft Reafon for the abovefaid Opinion Sect VIII The fecond Reafon and an Experiment Sect IX The third Reafon and an Experiment Sect
608
Sect X and XI The fourth Reaſon and ſeveral
611
The Wisdom of Him who reftrains
619
Fire in the Air and an Experiment
623
Convictions from thence
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Of Procreation in general
644
The Motion of Animals in general
651
The wonderful Structure of the Wings
657
Of the Feet of WaterFowl
664
Sect XXVI XXVII XXVIII How Fishes
670
Convictions from the foregoing Obferva tions
678
Fishes Swim with their Tails Sect XXXII The Ufe of their Fins Sect XXXIII Creatures that live in the Air fee confufedly in the Water
681
To prevent this confused Sight Fishes are endowed with rounder Eyes Sect XXXV and XXXVI The Fruitfulneſs or Number of Fishes Sect XXXVII T...
683
Creeping Creatures not yet thorough ly known
688
Of Infects Silkworms Caterpillers
692
Something of the Beginning of Action in Beafts
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Tranfition to the Plants in general Sect II Without Earth and Water no Plants will Spring from their Seeds
698
Every Seed has its SeedPlant
699
The SeedRoot and Pluma in a Bean
700
Every Plant has two Roots Sect VI The Cavity in the Bean for the Pluma
702
The Hole in the Skin for the RootSprout Sect VIII The Nutricious Juice or Sap changes its way in the Seed
703
The SeedLeaves and their Ufe Sect
704
Confiderations on the Texts in John xii 24
706
Whether the SeedPlants contain the fol
713
Convictions from the foregoing Obfervations
723

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Page 543 - Fear ye not me? Saith the LORD: will ye not tremble at my presence, which have placed the sand for the bound of the sea by a perpetual decree, that it cannot pass it: and though the waves thereof toss themselves, yet can they not prevail; though they roar, yet can they not pass over it?
Page 632 - 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 fishes of the sea ; into your hand are they delivered.
Page 696 - But fome man will fay, How are the dead raifed up ? and with what body do they come ? Thou fool, that which thou foweft is not quickened, except it die : And that which thou foweft, thou foweft not that body that mall be, but bare grain, it may chance of wheat, or of fome other grain : But GOD giveth it a body as it hath pleafed Him, and to every feed His own body.
Page 655 - Behold the fowls of the air : for they fow not, neither do they reap, nor gather into barns ; yet your heavenly Father feedeth them. Are ye not much better than they ? Which of you, by taking thought, can add one cubit unto his ftature?
Page 351 - Philosopher: or, the Right Use of Contemplating the Works of the Creator. I. In the wonderful Structure of Animal Bodies, and in particular Man, II. In the no less wonderful and wise Formation of the Elements and their various Effects upon Animal and Vegetable Bodies, And III. In the most amazing Structure of the Heavens, with all its Furniture. Designed for the Conviction of Atheists and Infidels.
Page 724 - Sweat of thy Face Jhalt thou eat Bread, till thou return unto the Ground; For out of it...
Page 657 - Sea fhall declare unto thee. Who knoweth not in all thefe, that the Hand of the Lord hath wrought this > In whofe Hand is the Soul of every living Thing, and the Breath of all Mankind.
Page 619 - ... melt with fervent heat, the earth alfo and the works that are therein (hall fee burnt up.
Page 543 - Who hatb, placed the fand for the bound of the fea, by a perpetual decree that it cannot pafs ; and the waters thereof tofs.themfelves, yet can they not prevail ; though they roar, yet can they not pafs over it.
Page 474 - Power, he hath, eftablifhed the World by his Wifdom, and hath ftretched out the Heavens by his Difcretion. When he uttereth his Voice, there is a Multitude of Waters in the Heavens, and he caufeth the Vapours to afcend from the Ends of the Earth : He maketh Lightnings with Rain, and bringeth forth the Wind out of his Treafures. Am I a God at hand, faith the Lord, and not xxiii.

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