Physico-theology: Or, A Demonstration of the Being and Attributes of God, from His Works of Creation

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W. Innys and J. Richardson, 1754 - God - 444 pages
 

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Page 444 - Speak thou also unto the children of Israel, saying, Verily my sabbaths ye shall keep : for it is a sign between me and you throughout your generations ; that ye may know that I am the Lord that doth sanctify you.
Page 434 - 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 173 - After the creation, when the world was to be peopled by one man and one woman, the age of the greatest part of those on record was 900 and upwards.
Page 440 - Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy. Six days shalt thou labor and do all thy work : But the seventh is the sabbath of the Lord thy God...
Page 272 - I have filled him with the spirit of God, in wisdom, and in understanding, and in knowledge, and in all manner of workmanship, to devise cunning works, to work in gold, and in silver, and in brass, and in cutting of stones, to set them, and in carving of timber, to work in all manner of workmanship.
Page 84 - God? Shall the thing formed fay to him that formed it, Why haft, thou made me thus f Hath not the potter power over the clay...
Page 307 - If the whole body were an eye, where were the hearing? If the whole were hearing, where were the smelling? But now hath God set the members every one of them in the body, as it hath pleased him.
Page 172 - Thus the balance of the animal world, is, throughout all ages, kept even; and by a curious harmony and just proportion between the increase of all animals and the length of their lives, the world is through all ages well, but not...
Page 355 - ... mother. In this manner the ostrich may be said to be hardened against her young ones as though they were not hers ; her labour...
Page 425 - Pines, we stick our Knives into the Leaves just above the Root, and that lets out the Water, which we catch in our Hats, as I have done many times to my great Relief.

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