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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. 1860. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER II. "In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth."--Gen. i. 1. Pa. viii. 1-7. What an imposing picture was presented to us in our last lesson!--the earth, the heavens, and the heaven of heavens rising out of nothing "in the beginning;" that is to say,at some time in the depths of past ages--we know not how long ago--perhaps hundreds of thousands and millions of years. We have now to continue this magnificent subject, but first let us read a few verses of the 8th Psalm, and let us pray that our hearts may be filled with humble adoration and praise:--"0 Lord our Lord, how excellent is thy name in all the earth! who hast set thy glory above the heavens. When I consider thy heavens, the work of thy fingers, the moon and the stars, which thou hast ordained; what is man, that thou art mindful of him? and the son of man, that thou visitest him?" Ah! certainly, dear children, if the sight of the heavens fills us with admiration and wonder, there is something which ought to astonish us much more; and it is, that such a great God should have remembered worms of the earth such as we are--that he should have humbled himself to be made like unto us, and should have come to visit and dwell among us. In the last chapter we considered only the first two words of the verse--the words, "m the beginning," and " created." From these words, you will remember, we learned two great truths: First, That there was once a time, called here "in the beginning," when nothing existed but God alone--neither spirits nor matter--neither angels nor archangels--neither heaven nor earth, nor the least grain of the dust of the ground. Second, That God made all things out of nothing. He spoke, and from nothing there arose our earth and all that is therein--from nothing came a...
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- PublisherGeneral Books LLC
- Publication date2012
- ISBN 10 1150129468
- ISBN 13 9781150129469
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages48
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