 | New Church gen. confer - 1844 - 496 pages
...senses make known, and thus to fit him for the highest contemplation of which he is capable, namely, the relation which he bears to the unseen AUTHOR of...glorious book ; one system of appointed and associated laws, independent of time and exempt from change, but operating under conditions, which vary with time... | |
 | John Pye Smith - Bible and geology - 1839 - 464 pages
...senses make known ; and thus to fit him for the highest contemplation of which he is capable, namely, the relation which he bears to the unseen AUTHOR of...prepared the present : the present explains the past and points to the future."* c,eation of III. A prevalent, though not universal interI'uml'narie"!7 pretation... | |
 | William Sidney Gibson - Bible and geology - 1840 - 328 pages
...mind of a rational being, and lead him, by a flowery path, to the cultivation of the Divine essence within him which raises him above all that his senses...prepared the present; the present explains the past, and points to the future." Professor John Phillips's Suppl. Note, in Professor Powell's Connexion of Nat.... | |
 | John Pye Smith - Bible and geology - 1840 - 566 pages
...senses make known ; and thus to fit him for the highest contemplation of which he is capable, namely, the relation which he bears to the unseen AUTHOR of...prepared the present; the present explains the past and points to the future."• III. A prevalent, though not universal interpretation of the archaic narrative,... | |
 | John Pye Smith - Bible and geology - 1840 - 376 pages
...senses make known; and thus to fit him for the highest contemplation of which he is capable, namely, the relation which he bears to the unseen AUTHOR of...prepared the present: the present explains the past and points to the future."* III. A prevalent, though not universal interpretation of the archaic narrative,... | |
 | John Pye Smith - Bible and geology - 1840 - 376 pages
...highest contemplation of which he is capable, namely, the relation which he bears to the unseen ADTHOR of all this visible material world. " Thus, to the...prepared the present: the present explains the past and points to the future."* III. A prevalent, though not universal interpretation of the archaic narrative,... | |
 | John Harris - Bible and geology - 1847 - 330 pages
...senses make known ; and thus to fit him for the highest contemplation of which he is capable ; namely, the relation which he bears to the unseen AUTHOR of all this visible material world." * 3. Here again, however, the means must be measured, and the evidence balanced between two extremes.... | |
 | Thomas Lockerby - 1850 - 842 pages
...senses make known, and thus to fit him for the highest contemplation of which he is capable, — namely, the relation which he bears to the unseen Author of...associated law, independent of time, and exempt from change ; bnt operating under conditions which vary with time and place. The past has prepared the present... | |
 | John Harris - Creation - 1850 - 324 pages
...senses make known ; and thus to fit him for the highest contemplation of which he is capable ; namely, the relation which he bears to the unseen AUTHOR of all this visible material world."1 3. Here again, however, the means must be measured, and the evidence balanced between two... | |
 | John Harris - Creation - 1850 - 322 pages
...senses make known ; and thus to fit him for the highest contemplation of which he is capable ; namely, the relation which he bears to the unseen AUTHOR of all this visible material world."1 3. Here again, however, the means must be measured, and the evidence balanced between two... | |
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... newness, to interest with a perpetual charm the growing mind of a rational being, and lead him by a flowery path t o the cultivation of the divine thing within him, which raises him above all that his senses make known; and thus to fit him for the... 
