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... Goodness of the Creator , who gave me too many little Devils to ferve and amufe me . If I am told , that thefe poor Devils are doomed to fuffer eternal Tortures , I admire God's De- crees , but I have no manner of share in this dreadful ...
... Goodness of the Creator , who gave me too many little Devils to ferve and amufe me . If I am told , that thefe poor Devils are doomed to fuffer eternal Tortures , I admire God's De- crees , but I have no manner of share in this dreadful ...
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... Goodness is vindicated , Man him- Jelf is justified : for what Right can we have without Neceffity , and often in the way of meer Diverfion , to take away the Life of Millions of Beafts , if God had not authorized him fo to do ?. And ...
... Goodness is vindicated , Man him- Jelf is justified : for what Right can we have without Neceffity , and often in the way of meer Diverfion , to take away the Life of Millions of Beafts , if God had not authorized him fo to do ?. And ...
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... Goodness , and Power of the Almighty , the whole Mundane Syftem , the World with all its Inhabitants , all the Sub- jects of the Animal and Vegetable Kingdoms , all the innumerable Species , Tribes , and Fa- milies of Birds , Beafts ...
... Goodness , and Power of the Almighty , the whole Mundane Syftem , the World with all its Inhabitants , all the Sub- jects of the Animal and Vegetable Kingdoms , all the innumerable Species , Tribes , and Fa- milies of Birds , Beafts ...
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... Goodness , formed in Member , Weight , and Measure , of the most exquifite Beauty , the most delicate Proportion , without Defect , without Super- fluity , exactly fitted and enabled to answer the various Purpofes of their Creation , to ...
... Goodness , formed in Member , Weight , and Measure , of the most exquifite Beauty , the most delicate Proportion , without Defect , without Super- fluity , exactly fitted and enabled to answer the various Purpofes of their Creation , to ...
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... Goodness of him that made them ! Such was , fuch must have been ( if we believe the Scriptures ) the bleffed Condition of these once happy Creatures . Is there any thing in this Account that seems either impoffible or improbable ? Does ...
... Goodness of him that made them ! Such was , fuch must have been ( if we believe the Scriptures ) the bleffed Condition of these once happy Creatures . Is there any thing in this Account that seems either impoffible or improbable ? Does ...
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Page 5 - And the fear of you and the dread of you shall be upon every beast of the earth, and upon every fowl of the air...
Page 63 - And God created great whales, and every living creature that moveth, which the waters brought forth abundantly, after their kind, and every winged fowl after his kind : and God saw that it was good. And God blessed them, saying, Be fruitful, and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and let fowl multiply in the earth.
Page 63 - And God made the beast of the earth after his kind, and cattle after their kind, and every thing that creepeth upon the earth after his kind: and God saw that it was good.
Page 3 - There be four things which are little upon the earth, but they are exceeding wise: the ants are a people not strong, yet they prepare their meat in the summer; the conies are but a feeble folk, yet make they their houses in the rocks; the locusts have no king, yet go they forth all of them by bands; the spider taketh hold with her hands, and is in kings
Page 35 - O Lord, how manifold are thy works : in wifdom haft thou made them all ; the earth is full of thy riches.
Page 46 - the roaring of lions, the warbling of cats and screech-owls, together with a mixture of the howling of dogs, judiciously imitated and compounded, might go a great way in this invention.