| John Bird Sumner - Creation - 1818 - 416 pages
...yet been proposed, which is not less reconcilable to ascertained facts and conflicting pheenomena, than to the Mosaic history*. According to that history,...geologers, even if it were not declared by the sacred * See Cuvier, p. 40 et seqq. Professor Kidd's observations on this subject are well worth attention.... | |
| William Daniel Conybeare, William Phillips - Geology - 1822 - 568 pages
...be safely affirmed, that no Geological theory hat yet been proposed, which is not less reconciltable to ascertained facts and conflicting phenomena, than...it were not declared by the sacred historian. But vie are not called upon to deny the possible existence of previous -worlds , from the -wreck of -which... | |
| William Daniel Conybeare, William Phillips - Geology - 1822 - 592 pages
...be safely affirmed, that no Geological theory hat yet been proposed, which is not less reconciltable to ascertained facts and conflicting phenomena, than...discoveries of geologers, even if it were not declared by lie sacred historian. Bui tvi arc net called upon to deny tki fuaiiUe exiitiuce of fnvins wflr/i&,... | |
| English literature - 1825 - 542 pages
...acknowledging the agency of the Creator, only attempts to point out the secondary instruments which he has employed. It may be safely affirmed that no...of that kind would appear from the discoveries of geologists, even if it were not declared by the sacred historian. But we are not called upon to deny... | |
| 1829 - 598 pages
...so far as they have hitherto proceeded, are hostile to the Mosaic account of creation ; inasmuch as, according to that history, we are bound to admit,...of which Adam and Eve were the first inhabitants. Now here it is necessary to inquire into the import of the language which the Scriptures use in reference... | |
| David Bristow Baker - Skepticism - 1831 - 244 pages
...safely be affirmed, that no geological theory has yet been proposed, which is not less reconcilable to ascertained facts and conflicting phenomena, than...the first inhabitants. The certainty of one event of that-kind would appear from the discoveries of geologers, even if it were not declared by the sacred... | |
| William Cooke Taylor - Madurai - 1835 - 300 pages
...history. " According to that history, we are bound to admit, that only one general destruction. 165 " or revolution of the globe has taken place since the period of that creation which Mosea ." records, and of which Adam and Eve were the first inhabitants. The certainty of one " event... | |
| William Hill Tucker - Bible - 1838 - 512 pages
...Bishop Sumner in his " Records of Creation, — 1st Appendix," states, "According to that (the Mosaic) history, we are bound to admit that only one general...would appear from the discoveries of geologers, even were it not declared by the sacred historian. But we are not called upon to deny the possible existence... | |
| Frederick John Francis - 1839 - 204 pages
...sentence. " According to the Mosaic History, we are bound to admit that only one general destruction of the globe has taken place since the period of that...of that kind would appear from the discoveries of geologists, even if it were not declared by the sacred historian . But we are not called upon to deny... | |
| 1839 - 836 pages
...gradually unfolded by the progressive improvements in astronomical knowledge." " According to the Mosaic history, we are bound to admit, that only one general...revolution of the globe has taken place since the period of tnat creation which Moses records, and of which Adam and Eve were the firеt inhabitants. The certainty... | |
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