| William Worthington - 1773 - 524 páginas
...variety of feafons in the antediluvian world : For is it not faid, that at the creation, God appointed lights, to divide the day from the night ; and to be for figns,. and for feafons, and for days and years * ? It is true, the •great luminaries anfwer all... | |
| 1801 - 588 páginas
...moment, when TIME SHALL вв so MoBEf when there fliali be no longer a firmament over our heads, with ' lights to divide the day' from the night, and to be for figns, an J for tcafrms, and for days and years y bnt, the gates . ef Heaven being thrown open, that... | |
| Thomas Vincent - 1806 - 308 páginas
...He appointed these lights, their motion, office and use to com pass the earth, to rule the day and the night, and to be for signs, and for seasons, and for days, and for years. Q. 9. What was God's work on, the fifth day ? ., , ,,; "A. On the fifth day, I. God made of the waters,... | |
| Henry St. John Bolingbroke (Viscount) - 1809 - 434 páginas
...before the sun, the moon, and the stars, which were " set in the " firmament " firmament of Heaven to divide the day from the " night, and to be for signs and for seasons, and " for days and for years." It was not necessary that he should tell them, how this moral system was destroyed, by the wiles of... | |
| 1817 - 522 páginas
...the other planets, as he has done for that which we inhabit, giving them lights in their firmaments, to be for signs and for seasons, and for days and for years, and dividing the light from the darkness, he deduces the presumption, that the Creator has not left... | |
| Timothy Dwight - 1818 - 650 páginas
...confine myself to a few additional observations. These luminaries were set in the firmament of heaven, to divide the day from the night ; and to be for signs and for seasons, for days and for years. Accordingly, they have been the great means of distributing time, from the... | |
| 1836 - 438 páginas
...the earth ;" and having before affirmed, that these " lights in the firmament of the heaven," were to divide the day from the night," and to be " for signs, and for seasons, and for days, and years," what more as an astronomer, that is, of his own age, could he have to say? After... | |
| Samuel Horsley - 1820 - 442 páginas
...created ; and they were at the same time appointed to be " for lights, to give light upon the earth ; and to be for signs, and for seasons, and for days, and for years." At this same time therefore, that is, when these bodies were first created, the motions in the orbits... | |
| 1821 - 790 páginas
...celestial bodies shall retain their course, whicli the Creator planted in the firmament of beaveo, ' to be for signs and for seasons, and for days and for years,' so long shall mankind be tare that they consecrate to the memory of these wonderful events, their proper... | |
| Timothy Dwight - 1824 - 652 páginas
...confine myself to a few additional observations. These luminaries were set in the firmament of heaven, to divide the day from the night ; and to be for signs and for seasons, for days and for years. Accordingly, they have been the great means of distributing time from the beginning,... | |
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