The Balance of Physics, the Square of the Circle, and the Earth''s True Solar and Lunar Distances: Discovered and Demonstrated, and by Astronomical Facts Seen in the Eclipses (Classic Reprint)

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All writers are called on to admit the value Of helps they have had from others gone before. Hence, all through this work, whether it be from Moses or any others on observed facts, the reader will find I have freely admitted it to their honour.

But further to the glory of God, if I, by the aid of the Mosaic institutes, have, herein, presented great discoveries of law and science (which others have by all admission utterly failed in, and actually given up as hopeless), and carried in the proofs the evidence of the value of such aid, must not this, as matter of future incontrovertible history, be of great value to strengthen the Christian Church, and bring glory to our God for His goodness in the assistance provided and admitted? Man is, in no place, supposed to be allowed to be indifferent to the glory of God as the Creator, whatever higher claims He has as the Redeemer. But the seeing eye is always spoken of in the Bible as aiding the hearing. The law is the schoolmaster to bring to Jesus. SO is Nature by it. All, at sea in a stormy, dark night, realize the value of the needle, and the quadrant at noon to guide the way, and are prepared, for a moment at least, to say of each point in science.

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