 | 1807 - 508 pages
...effecled it by means of the life, or vital or vi" vifying energy that was in his own Spirit." " And the " Earth was without form and void, and darknefs was " upon the face of the deep, and the Spirit of God moved " upon the face of the waters." Upon this you obferve, . " that before... | |
 | 1802 - 754 pages
...Hefiod, Arißophanes, Ovid, &c. how fimple and fublime would the defcription of Mofes appear, " And the earth was without form and void ; and darknefs was upon the face of the deep; and the fpiritof God moved upon the face of the waters ;" by being placed firft, the fcriptural pafTage... | |
 | Herman Witsius - 1803 - 486 pages
...iirft fruits of his creatures," Jam. i. 18. — The rudiments of the firft was an indigefted mafs. "The earth was without form and void, and darknefs was upon the face of the deep," Gen. i. 2. In like manner, all things lie in bafe confufion in the foul, when it is to be adorned by... | |
 | Jonathan Edwards, Samuel Hopkins - 1804 - 404 pages
...will be a more glorious work of God than that which we read of in the* beginning of Genefi?. " And the earth was without " form, and void, and darknefs was upon the face of " the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the " face of the waters : and God faid, Lettherebe light, " and there... | |
 | Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. - 1806 - 508 pages
...dominions, or principalities, or powers : all things were created by him, and for him. John I. 3. Gen. I. 2. And the earth was without form and void, and darknefs was upon the face of the deep: and the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters: with Job »6. 13. and Pfal. 104. 30. fMat.28.... | |
 | Asiatic Society of Bengal - 1807 - 458 pages
...IhtfpiritofGod; and, fince they were his firft ayana^or place of 'motion, he thence is MOSES. And the earth was without form, and void ; and darknefs was upon the face of the deep : and the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters. (Ib. 2.) ing on the waters. (Ib. 10.) From... | |
 | Hugh Blair - 1809 - 442 pages
...remarkable for this melody; " In the begin" ning, God created the heavens and the earth ; " and the earth was without form, and void ; and " darknefs was upon the face of the deep ; and the ** Spirit of God moved upon the face of the " waters." Several other paffages, particularly... | |
 | Samuel Shuckford - 1810 - 622 pages
...edit. Timol. p. 57. Procl. in Tim. giG. Acad. Yen. 1558. defcribes this in the following manner : The earth was without form, and -void, and darknefs was upon the face of the deep, and the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the "waters. Anaxagoras, as Laertius informs us, began... | |
 | John Wesley, George Story - 1806
...Bernard, will never read the Scriptures without great profit. By way of example take that paffage, Gen. i. 2, " And the earth was " without form, and void, and darknefs was upon the face of the " deep; and the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the' waters." Here we may thus meditate: "How wonderfully... | |
 | Philip Gaskell - 1959 - 116 pages
...33. •i J ir A V 6. and 136. 1 ' . •) IN .* the beginning God created the heaven and the earth. 2 And the earth was without form, and void; and darknefs was upon the face of the ' ftars alfo. ; 17 And God fet them in the firmament of the heaven, to give light upon the earth: 1... | |
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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. 
