An Examination of Dr. Burnet's Theory of the Earth: With Some Remarks on Mr. Whiston's New Theory of the Earth. Also an Examination of the Reflections on the Theory of the Earth, and a Defence of the Remarks on Mr. Whiston's New TheoryH. Clements, 1734 - 414 pàgines |
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Pàgina 12
... neceffary laws of Mechanifme , without any extraordinary concurrence of the Divine Power , the world and all that therein is might have been produced . Nay he was fo bold , that he pretended he could folve that infuperable problem , viz ...
... neceffary laws of Mechanifme , without any extraordinary concurrence of the Divine Power , the world and all that therein is might have been produced . Nay he was fo bold , that he pretended he could folve that infuperable problem , viz ...
Pàgina 16
... neceffary confe- quences of natural causes , which they pretend to account for . Thefe contrivers of Deluges , have furnished the Atheist with an Argument , which upon their fuppofition is not fo easily an anfwer'd as their Theories are ...
... neceffary confe- quences of natural causes , which they pretend to account for . Thefe contrivers of Deluges , have furnished the Atheist with an Argument , which upon their fuppofition is not fo easily an anfwer'd as their Theories are ...
Pàgina 17
... neceffary confequence of natural caufes , did fweep away all mankind , and with them the memorials of all former ages , only a couple of ignorant country peo- ple some way or other , faved themselves from the univerfal Catastrophe , and ...
... neceffary confequence of natural caufes , did fweep away all mankind , and with them the memorials of all former ages , only a couple of ignorant country peo- ple some way or other , faved themselves from the univerfal Catastrophe , and ...
Pàgina 18
... neceffary laws of motion . Thus we see how these flood - makers have given the Atheists an Argument to uphold their cause , which I think can only be truely anfwer'd by proving an univerfal Deluge from Mechanical caufes altogether ...
... neceffary laws of motion . Thus we see how these flood - makers have given the Atheists an Argument to uphold their cause , which I think can only be truely anfwer'd by proving an univerfal Deluge from Mechanical caufes altogether ...
Pàgina 25
... neceffary , what became of them when the deluge ceaf- ed ? It would be a hard task to lift feven or eight Oceans of water up among the spheres , and there is no room for them here below . Thus the Theorist thinks , that the vulgar o ...
... neceffary , what became of them when the deluge ceaf- ed ? It would be a hard task to lift feven or eight Oceans of water up among the spheres , and there is no room for them here below . Thus the Theorist thinks , that the vulgar o ...
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Pàgina 236 - And the waters prevailed exceedingly upon the earth ; and all the high hills, that were under the whole heaven, were covered.
Pàgina 237 - God made a wind to pass over the earth, and the waters assuaged ; the fountains also of the deep and the windows of heaven were stopped, and the rain from heaven was restrained ; and the waters returned from off the earth continually : and after the end of the hundred and fifty days the waters were abated.
Pàgina 236 - And the flood was forty days upon the earth; and the waters increased, and bare up the ark, and it was lift up above the earth.
Pàgina 2 - ... quite another law from this ; for the fquares of their periodical times are always as the cubes of their diftances, and therefore fince they do not obferve that law, which of neceffity they muft, if they fwim in a vortex, it is a demonftration that there are no vortices, in which the planets are carried round the fun.
Pàgina 236 - In the six hundredth year of Noah's life, in the second month, the seventeenth day of the month, the same day were all the fountains of the great deep broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened. And the rain was upon the earth forty days and forty nights.
Pàgina 31 - ... which being once filled, all the overplus of water that comes thither runs over by the lowest place, and breaking out by the sides of the hills forms single springs...
Pàgina 17 - Heaven and the earth ; and the earth was without form, and void, and darknefs was upon the face of the deep ; and the fpirit of God moved upon the face of the waters.
Pàgina 30 - The trees of the Lord are full of sap; the cedars of Lebanon, which he hath planted; Where the birds make their nests: as for the stork, the fir trees are her house. The high hills are a refuge for the wild goats; and the rocks for the conies.
Pàgina 31 - Valleys between the Ridges of the Hills, and coming to unite, form little Rivulets or Brooks : many of thefe again meeting in one common Valley, and gaining the plain Ground, being grown...