...God created the heaven and the earth;" and in the next verse wo find it declared, thai "the earth was without form and void, and darkness was on the face of the deep." The question is, Was the earth in this condition when she was first created? Most probably, not. From the...

...first of the six days. It is therefore expressly stated, in the " second verse, that the earth was without form and void, and "darkness was on the face of the waters. How long it remained "in this state, whether for years, or for hundreds and thousands " of...

...measures were required. No long circuit .of means was employed. " He spake ; and it was done : lie commanded ; and it stood fast. The earth was at first...darkness was on the face of the deep." The Almighty survej'ed the dark abyss; and uxed bounds to the several divisions of nature. He said, "Let there be...

...••• pray-er waiters Bo-ly read-ing God made all things of nothing, in the space of six days. The earth was at first without form, and void ; and darkness was on the face of the deep. Then God said, Let there be light ; and there was light : this was the work of the first day. On the...

...the sacred historian so laconically, but emphatically describes, when he says, that " the earth was without form and void, and darkness was on the face of the deep." It would be inconsistent with my plan to enter, with any minuteness, into a detail of the arguments...

...employed. " He spake ; and it was donc: he commanded; and it stood fiist. The earth, was at first v, ithout form, and void; and darkness was on the face of the...and fixed bounds to the several divisions of nature. He said, "Let there be light; and there was light." Then appeared the sea, and the dry land. The mountains...

...beginning," says the sacred historian, " God created the heaven and the earth. And the u2 earth was without form and void: and darkness was on the face of the deep (or abyss.) — And the Spirit of God moved uponihe face of the waters."* We are hence, therefore,...

...Chaos, or perhaps the 'f^s T*jT*jof of the Greeks, on this the Spirit of God moved, ' The earth was without form and void, and darkness was on the face of the deep ; and the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters;' at length it was his divine will to assume...

...existing on our globe, ".E're burst the first rich stream of light ,' From Chaos ' dreary night;— r're '-the Almighty surveyed the dark abyss, and fixed bounds to the several divisions of Nature." Do we choose to heighten the dismal picture already in the imagination, we may add the discoveries...

..."Thus we know that ' in the beginning, when God created the Heaven and the Earth, when the Earth was without form and void, and darkness was on the face of the deep, and the Spirit of God moved on the face of the waters,' the naked rock alone rose from the abyss; that...