Book contents
- Frontmatter
- PREFACE
- Contents
- DISCOURSE I A SKETCH OF THE MODERN ASTRONOMY
- DISCOURSE II THE MODESTY OF TRUE SCIENCE
- DISCOURSE III ON THE EXTENT OF THE DIVINE CONDESCENSION
- DISCOURSE IV ON THE KNOWLEDGE OF MAN'S MORAL HISTORY IN THE DISTANT PLACES OF CREATION
- DISCOURSE V ON THE SYMPATHY THAT IS FELT FOR MAN IN THE DISTANT PLACES OF CREATION
- DISCOURSE VI ON THE CONTEST FOR AN ASCENDENCY OVER MAN, AMONGST THE HIGHER ORDERS OF INTELLIGENCE
- DISCOURSE VII ON THE SLENDER INFLUENCE OF MERE TASTE AND SENSIBILITY, IN MATTERS OF RELIGION
- APPENDIX
- Frontmatter
- PREFACE
- Contents
- DISCOURSE I A SKETCH OF THE MODERN ASTRONOMY
- DISCOURSE II THE MODESTY OF TRUE SCIENCE
- DISCOURSE III ON THE EXTENT OF THE DIVINE CONDESCENSION
- DISCOURSE IV ON THE KNOWLEDGE OF MAN'S MORAL HISTORY IN THE DISTANT PLACES OF CREATION
- DISCOURSE V ON THE SYMPATHY THAT IS FELT FOR MAN IN THE DISTANT PLACES OF CREATION
- DISCOURSE VI ON THE CONTEST FOR AN ASCENDENCY OVER MAN, AMONGST THE HIGHER ORDERS OF INTELLIGENCE
- DISCOURSE VII ON THE SLENDER INFLUENCE OF MERE TASTE AND SENSIBILITY, IN MATTERS OF RELIGION
- APPENDIX
Summary
The writer of these Discourses, has drawn up the following compilation of passages from Scripture, as serving to illustrate or to confirm the leading arguments which have been employed in each separate division of his subject.
DISCOURSE I.
In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.—Gen. i. 1.
Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host of them.—Gen. ii. 1.
Behold the heaven, and the heaven of heavens, is the Lord's thy God, the earth also, with all that therein is.—Deut. x. 14.
There is none like unto the God of Jeshurun, who rideth upon the heaven in thy help, and in his excellency on the sky.—Deut. xxxiii. 26.
And Hezekiah prayed before the Lord, and said, O Lord God of Israel, which dwellest between the cherubims, thou art the God, even thou alone, of all the kingdoms of the earth; thou hast made heaven and earth.—2 Kings xix. 5.
For all the gods of the people are idols: but the Lord made the heavens.—1 Chronicles xvi. 26.
Thou, even thou, art Lord alone: thou hast made heaven, the heaven of heavens, with all their host, the earth and all things that are therein, the seas and all that is therein; and thou preservest them all; and the host of heaven worshippeth thee—Nehemiah ix. 6.
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- A Series of Discourses on the Christian Revelation, Viewed in Connection with the Modern Astronomy , pp. 257 - 275Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2009First published in: 1817