 | 1788 - 598 sider
...of MOSES, called GENESIS. CHAP. I. IN the beginning God created the heaven ajid the earth. 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. 3 And God faid, Let there be light 4 And... | |
 | Nathaniel Cotton - 1791 - 280 sider
...there be light, " and there was light;" and which almighty word was fpoken at a period, when " the earth was " without form, and void, and darknefs was upon " the face of the deep f ?" And if we believe, as indeed we muft believe, that the creation of man was not a greater eftbrt... | |
 | John Walsh (M.R.I.A.) - 1793 - 260 sider
...of the word, may alone be faid to exift, as he remains for ever unalterably the fame." & " And the earth was without form, and Void, and darknefs was upon the face o'f the deep." ** And the fpirit of God mdved Upon the face bf the waters." I cannot help expreffirig my furprize... | |
 | William Dalrymple - 1794 - 148 sider
...TO THE CREATION, From Gen. i. i, 2. In the beginning God created the Heaven 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. ' I •• HE world is not eternal; but... | |
 | Ebenezer Erskine - 1798 - 622 sider
...creation was before the forming of light, that is man's before Clirifc pay Lim a vifit: the old creation was " without form, and. void, and darknefs •was upon the face of the deep ;'' fo is maa ; re an, he is a without •without form or comehnefs, a mafs of darknefs, and diforder,... | |
 | Herman Witsius - 1803 - 486 sider
...that we Ihould be a kind of firft fruits of his creatures," Jam. i. 18.—The rudiments of the firft was an indigefted mafs. "The earth was without form...every where, without any order. Thofe things, which mould poflefs the upper place'are deprefied to the loweft. There is alfo. a furprifing emptinefs of... | |
 | Herman Witsius - 1803 - 476 sider
...creatures," Jam. i. 18.—The rudiments of the firft was an indigefted mafs. "The earth was with-, out form and void, and darknefs was upon the face of the...confufion in the foul, when it is to be adorned by die new creation : and depraved lufts are violently agitated every where, without any order. Thofe... | |
 | Thomas Fessenden - 1804 - 324 sider
...that a great fpace of time intervened from the firft creation to this, the following words fhew : The earth was without form, and. void, and darknefs was upon the face, of the deep ; which words the divine penman would not have added, if the adornation of it, had prefently followed... | |
 | Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. - 1806 - 508 sider
...principalities, or powers: all things were created by him, and for him. John 1. 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 26. 13. and Pfal. 104. 30. God, and... | |
 | Hugh Blair - 1809 - 442 sider
...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... | |
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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 the new creation : and depraved lufts are violently... 
