A Concise View of the Scriptures; Shewing Their Consistency, and Their Necessity, From an Examination of the Extent of Natural Knowledge - Tapa blanda

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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1824. Excerpt: ... Of the Purity of the first created of Mankind;--their Fall from it by the Spirit of Malignity;--and the Consistency of the Mosaic Law, in restoring their Purity, had it been fulfilled. Every reasonable and intelligent mind admits, there is conclusive evidence in the works of creation, of the rule of an All-wise and Omnipotent Being: and the same intelligence must admit, that it rested with Himself the several gradations of his own creatures as we find them:--that in creating this world, He must have had an object in view consistent with his wisdom and power; and that it would be revealed to his creatures for their comfort, if their state and limited understanding required it, in the progressive accomplishment of his plan and decrees. And having already shewn the limited knowledge of our natural state, and the misery and fear attending it without a revelation, we have now to develope that important plan and decrees from the Scriptures, which make manifest for our comfort,--that " He is just and merciful in all his ways, and holy in all his works" toward us. In the creation of mankind, the words of God Gen.i 26. were:--"Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth." Gen. H.7. "And the Lord God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul:" that is, by the breath or Holy Spirit of God, man received a living soul, and that living soul was the image of God. Gen. i. 27. "So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and Gen. i. 26. female created he them. And God blesse...