...For example, we are informed in the first chapter of Genesis, that " in the beginning, the earth was without form, and void, and darkness was on the face of the deep." And it is related by Berosus, that the ancient Chaldeans maintained, that in the beginning, all things...

...OP THE WORLD. GEN. CHAP. 1. IN the beginning God created the heaven and the earth. And 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. And God said, let there t>e light; and there...

...the first men, and is agreeable to the Scripture account, which says, that at first " the earth was without form and void, and darkness was on the face of the deep." The poet, very naturally, ascribes to night the oflice of sheltering sleep. . that by wedlock's right Pasithea...

...the first men, and is agreeable to the Scripture account, which says, that at first " the earth was without form and void, and darkness was on the face of the deep." The poet, very naturally, ascribes to night the office of sheltering sleep. • that by wedlock's right...

...created the heaven and the earth ;" and in the next verse, we find it declared, that " 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...

...creation. Pleasure is the designed offspring of animate and inanimate nature. While " tho earth was without form and void, and darkness was on the face of the deep," pleasure had no existence here below. Neither did it when God had said, " Let there be light," and...

...come. Prohahly, at this period, no sun shed its henign influence over the desolate earth. " It was without form and void, and darkness was on the face of the deep." "The Spirit of God moved on the face of the waters" that enveloped the earth. "And God said, let there he...

...as we know " ' thai. 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 ;...

...spirit's renovating agency has its foundation in natural depravity. In the beginning the earth was without form and void, and darkness was on the face of the deep; and in this condition it would have remained forever, but for the interposition of Him who created...

...many millions of creatures now dwell! No preparatory measures were required. No long circuit of means was employed. " He spake, and it was done ; he commanded,...at first " without form and void: and darkness was upon the face of the deep." The Almighty surveyed the dark abyss ; and fixed bounds to the several...