...charge His mind with meanings6 that he never had, Or having, kept conceal'd. Some drill and bore 150 The solid earth, and from the strata there Extract...its age. Some more acute and more industrious still 155 Contrive creation ; travel nature up 5 Then came Domitian, dragging in Suetonius : There is no...

...charge His mind with meanings6 that he never had, Or having, kept conceal'd. Some drill and bore 150 The solid earth, and from the strata there Extract...its age. Some more acute and more industrious still 155 Contrive creation ; travel nature up * Then came Domitian, dragging in Suetonius : There is no...

...all his purposes, and charge His mind with meanings that he never had, Or, having, kept conceal'd. Some drill and bore The solid earth, and from the...which we learn, That he who made it and reveal'd its data To Moses, was mistaken in its age. Some, more acute, and more industiious Etill, Contrive creation...

...occur to some few that we deserve the reproach of the amiable, and pious Cowper, against those who "drill and bore The solid earth, and from the strata...register, by which we learn That he who made it, and revealed its date To Moses, was mistaken in its age."* The professors of geology have too long been...

...all his purposes, and charge His mind with meanings that he never had, Or, having, kept conceal'd. Some drill and bore The solid earth, and from the strata there Extract a register, by which we leam, That he who made it, and reveal'd its date To Moses, was mistaken in its age. Some, more acute,...

...revealed to Moses creation's date, aims a blow at Geology. In his poem entitled "The Task," he says — " Some drill and bore " The solid earth, and from the...reveal'd its date " To Moses, was mistaken in its age." Here the worthy poet was certainly mistaken in his conclusions ; for where in Revelation do we find...

...which the science, which could hardly be said to exist in his time, has made since they were written. " Some drill and bore, The solid earth, and from the...register, by which we learn, That He who made it, and revealed its date, To Mose", was mistaken in its age." Moses, however, does no such thing as is attributed...

...place upon it after some terrible convulsion. Thus, according to the words of a celebrated poet, — " Some drill and bore The solid earth, and from the...register, by which we learn That He who made it, and revealed its date To Moses, was mistaken in its age."* This is manifestly a subject beyond the reach...

...of Genesis. There is not one word in the Bible to prove this ; yet he censures the geologists who " Drill and bore The solid earth, and from the strata...register, by which we learn That He who made it, and reveaFd its dale To Moses, was mistaken in its age." But, on the other hand, the reverent interrogation...

...Christian Theology, vol. i. pp. 355, 356, and 360. NOTE XI. p. 86. THE FIRST FOUR DAYS OF CREATION. Some more acute and more industrious still, Contrive...creation, travel nature up To the sharp peak of her sublimcst heights, And tell us whence the stars ! CowPE&. To those who will form cosmogonies, and think...