 | Eli Forbes - 1801 - 332 pagina’s
...the wild chaos was productive of innumerable real iodividual exiftences ; for it is obfervable, that, when the Spirit of God moved on the face of the waters, and hud exerted his creative and prolific power, that the Deity joined in one voice, faying, " Let... | |
 | 1834 - 330 pagina’s
...all principle, and reduce the moral world to a chaos, like that which was formerly reduced to order, when the spirit of God moved on the face of the waters ; and I own I am ashamed,! am afflicted, I am astonished, when I hear any one under the profession... | |
 | Alexander Watson - 1845 - 612 pagina’s
...respect. Who could imagine that the day which recalls to our minds the beginning of creation, the time when the SPIRIT of GOD moved on the face of the waters, and light first sprang up out of darkness, may be fitly solemnized by a state of intellectual vacuity... | |
 | Samuel Prout Newcomb - 1853 - 446 pagina’s
...must this world have been, when ail was darkness! But, how strange it must have sounded in the dark, when the Spirit of God moved on the face of the waters. and they began to make a rippling sound — or sometimes a rushing noise, as they washed backwards... | |
 | 1873 - 172 pagina’s
...WE find the first mention of the Third Person of the blessed Trinity in the account of the Creation, when " the Spirit of God moved on the face of the waters." Repeated notices of Him and His work meet us both in the Old and the New Testament, but most especially... | |
 | Nemo (pseud.) - 1876 - 156 pagina’s
...God moved upon the face of the waters." Hitherto the earth had been void, and •without life, but when the Spirit of God moved on the face of the waters, the earliest germs of life began to appear. The whole surface of the denser mass of ejected matter... | |
 | 1885 - 608 pagina’s
...It means, does it not, that all life, alike animal, intellectual and spiritual, comes from Him, as when the ' Spirit of God moved on the face of the waters ' in the beginning ? A. That would mark the beginning of natural life. S. And for intellectual —... | |
 | James Luke Meagher - 1909 - 558 pagina’s
...movement. Where did this movement come from ? From God, Primeval and Eternal Force. He moved matter when the " Spirit of God moved on the face of the waters." Gen. i. 2. What was the beginning of these forces, how do they act? The original force is attraction.... | |
 | Eva Gore-Booth - 1923 - 388 pagina’s
...with the psychic element. That is to identify oneself with the moving spirit, not only with the waters (when the Spirit of God moved on the face of the waters). And having done this, nothing remains but to fling oneself outside and beyond oneself, holding nothing... | |
 | 1858 - 602 pagina’s
...earliest notions of order and regularity in the material universe were connected with divine agency. When the spirit of God moved on the face of the waters, the result was not confusion but order. When David views God, in relation to the stars, it is the regularity... | |
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When the spirit of God moved on the face of the waters, the result was not confusion but order. 
