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abfurd actions affert againſt almoſt amongſt animals anſwer antients appetites Author infifts becauſe Berith body cauſe cife confequence courſe covenant Creator defire Deity difpofition diſcover diſcoveries duty earth effential Elohim emblems evidence exiſtence facrifice falſe fame fatisfy fays feems felicity fenfe fent fervice fhew fhould fignifies fire firft firſt fome foul fpirit Freethinkers ftate ftill fuch fuperior fuppofed fupport fure fyftem goodneſs happineſs heart Heathens heavens Hebrew Hebrew language himſelf idea inftitution itſelf Jehovah juſt juſtice knowledge laft language learning leaſt light mankind meaſure mercy Mofes Moft moſt muft muſt nature neceffary notions obferves object occafion perfect perfon philofophers pleaſed pleaſure poffible prefent preſent preſerve propofition puniſhment purpoſe purſued purſuits raiſe reaſon reflexion repreſent repreſentation revelation ſays Scriptures ſeems ſenſe ſome ſtanding ſtate ſuch ſuppoſed ſyſtem thefe themſelves theſe thing thofe thoſe tion tranflated true ture underſtanding underſtood uſe vanity whoſe wiſdom word worſhip
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Page 77 - Ezekiel as resembling a throne of sapphire, upon which is seated Adonai ; and supporting and drawing it are four living creatures or cherubim, having four faces, the face of an ox, the face of a lion, the face of a man, and the face of an eagle.
Page 93 - It is at the fame time not certain, at leaft tc me it does not appear to be fo, that" there was any other ufe for creating thefe immenfe heavenly bodies, but to regulate the motion of the earth ; to produce the other effects which fome of them evidently have, and all of them in a greater or fmaller proportion may have on the earth ; and to raife in man that idea of the magnificence, power, and...
Page 21 - ... another sort of motion, would produce heat and fire, are, as our author insists, when the force impelling them ceases to act with vigour, and when their motion is retarded, so made, that they are apt to adhere in small masses or grains, which the author calls spirit or air, and is of the same kind and texture with that air which we daily breathe,, and which we feel in wind when it blows.