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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... Antediluvian condition of society . -Longevity . - Moral cause for it . - Not fabulous . - Fa- vourable to the development of evil . - Its growth unre- strained . By frequent death . - By examples of Divine judgments . Some examples ...
... Antediluvian condition of society . -Longevity . - Moral cause for it . - Not fabulous . - Fa- vourable to the development of evil . - Its growth unre- strained . By frequent death . - By examples of Divine judgments . Some examples ...
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... antediluvian times , that God , who had rich designs of mercy yet to be dis- played in behalf of this fallen world , interposed to prevent the utter extinction of human society by the natural and unrestrained workings of the human heart ...
... antediluvian times , that God , who had rich designs of mercy yet to be dis- played in behalf of this fallen world , interposed to prevent the utter extinction of human society by the natural and unrestrained workings of the human heart ...
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... 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 of the most common arts , the simplest ...
... 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 of the most common arts , the simplest ...
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... antediluvians is by this consideration stripped of the fabulous char- acter with which it has sometimes been considered as invested . There was a moral cause for it . While , however , it was favourable to the advance- ment of the ...
... antediluvians is by this consideration stripped of the fabulous char- acter with which it has sometimes been considered as invested . There was a moral cause for it . While , however , it was favourable to the advance- ment of the ...
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... civil society had not obtained any considerable degree of perfection . They are a plant of tardy growth . We have some intimations on this point in the sa- cred sketch of the antediluvian times . What gave such ILLUSTRATED . 39.
... civil society had not obtained any considerable degree of perfection . They are a plant of tardy growth . We have some intimations on this point in the sa- cred sketch of the antediluvian times . What gave such ILLUSTRATED . 39.
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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.