This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1849 Excerpt: ...shut out, by a concentric sphere, at a moderate distance from the earth, and of inconsiderable thickness, but, as originally formed, opaque; and which I will call the external sphere. The darkness was complete. Ver. 2 continued--and the spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters. h We may be sure that ...
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1849 Excerpt: ...shut out, by a concentric sphere, at a moderate distance from the earth, and of inconsiderable thickness, but, as originally formed, opaque; and which I will call the external sphere. The darkness was complete. Ver. 2 continued--and the spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters. h We may be sure that this solemn and august manifestation of the Divine presence and power, was designed for some important purpose. What it was may be inferred from an extraordinary change in the language of the description, after this announcement. At first it is said, God created. But the language hereafter, (with exceptions which do not invalidate the rule,) is, And God said, Let there be, and it was so. The elements appear to have heard and obeyed the command of God. But this could not have happened, unless they had been endowed with intelligence, volition and activity; or, which is far more probable, and which is the theory adopted, unless some subtle, pervading spirit, capable of wielding the elements, had been thus endowed. It is well nigh superfluous to add, that material elements, which, by reason of the entire absence of perception, could not hear a zephyr, could no more hear the trump of the archangel, or even the voice of the Almighty. The Almighty could endow them with perceptive faculties; but this would be to render them intelligent; and the Almighty could wield them by an exercise of power, but. this would not be voluntary obedience. Unquestionably electricity. See Psal. 104; 4, with Jud. 13: 19,20; Luke 19: 40. But it is in the first chapters of Ezekiel that a more particular description is given of the "elementary spirits." See Ezek. 1, and especially, (in the connexion,) ver. 13, 14. I have believed that the description, in the New Testament, of ...
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