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earth in the open expanse of heaven . It is observable in the Scriptures , that the term heaven has several distinct significations , which are worthy of being noticed . These are three : the highest or third heaven , which is the celestial abode of the Almighty , or where his glory is more immediately
manifested ; 1 Kings xxii . 19 ; Job xxii . 12 ; 2 Cor . xii . 3 : called also 1 / ear en of hearcnx , I Kings viii . 27-The second heaven , which is the magnificent region of the planetary orbits and of the fixed stars , which arc called the host of heaven , and the ordinances of heaven , Dent . xvii . » * > ; Jer . xxxiii . 25 . And the lower heaven , in which are clouds , rain , dew , snow and winds ;
Dan . vii . 2 ; Gen . \ ii . 11 , xxvii . 28 ; Isaiah lv . 10 ; Dan . vii . 13 ; and in which the fowls 1 ly as their proper element . A due attention to these distinctions is needful for understanding the several uses of the term in
this chapter , as m the 1 st , Mth , loth and 17 th verses , it means the second heaven , or all the luminaries which it contains ; and in the 8 th , 20 th and 30 th , it signifies the lower heaven , or , as it is translated in the last of these verses , the air , with all that appertains
to it as a necessary appurtenance of the earth . The , atmosphere and waters having boon supplied with suitable tenants , it remained on the sixth day to provide appropriate animals to inhabit the dry land . Yew 2-1 : vlnd ( Hod xaidy I set the earth hri ) t » ' forth the living creaitire after his kind , atid eat . tie
after their A' /'/ id , ivc . A ) he ( her the divers soils of creatures were , produced for these different , departments of nature , the water , the air , and the land , by the transformation of materials previously existing , or by being immediately created , which the 4 Hebrew KU' »' i » "csts Vo have been thec ; * sv k
with some , they n . ini .-ter to the glory of the Supreme Iicmi »" . whose plastic might instantly produced what bis incomprehensibly intelligent and benevolent will designed Their production in such innumerable , genuse * and t ribes , ail so admirably framed in their
anatomy , so aptly compacted in their toniiH , exquisi J ely organized in their systems , and endowed with senses , instincts and sagacities so accurately adapted to their various stations ; fitted lor securing their safety and supplying
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their wants , and suited to the enjoyment of the life they received ; too- , ther with the enactment of the lans of their respective natures for perpetuating the existence of each species of these sensitive beings through all
successive ages—most strikingly evince the infinite skill , beneficence and power of their great Creator . And last of all were mankind brought into existence in the Divine image , malr and female created he them , in whose formation were combined the mo < t
curious organic constructions and wonderful contrivances belonging- to those animals which had been before produced . And , in addition to the excellencies of their corporeal frames , they were endued with intellectual
faculties , that not only qualified for all beneficial temporal purposes , but were also susceptible of high improvement ; such as capacitate the human race , in every age , for eontemplatiDc and adoring the perfections of their glorious Maker , for reflecting on their peculiar moral obligations , cherishing
a consciousness ot responsibility , and anticipating immortal life . Invested with these mental powers , were tin first parents of mankind distinguished for a most decided pre-eminence over all other animated natures , in dignity , adaptation for usefulness and capability of happiness , and constituted the irlories of ( iod ' s terrestrial creation .
I he whole of this account , ot iendering our world a proper abode 1 ' it living creatures , and especially for the human race , unquestionably written in that early period when k / mnh ^ ' 'had made but small advances toward .-
the comparative maturity of the present age , is so consistent with the appearances of nature , so analogous to principles which the undcrstaudiui ! and experience of cultivated ages huu demonstrated and confirmed , and s ( l
l . ir superior to every representation *^ the origin of nature given in rnnoW times by unassisted reason , or p hilosophical science in the mere li ^ ht ot nature , that J conceive there cannot he a more rational conclusion than
that it was the result of a divine communication to a favoured prop lu : (This belief , too , is so much in lemony with the divine legation <>* ^' j ses , with the sanctity of the Jt » . wis » dispensation , and with the heave 1 ] )' authenticity of the Christian revel *
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: 282 Mr . Fry ' s Observations on the First Chapter of Genesis .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), May 2, 1822, page 282, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2512/page/26/
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