...remarkable: the latter part of the fécond verfe, with the third, are exprefled in this manner ; ' but the Spirit of God moved on the face of the waters : For God had faid, let there be light, fo there was light.'—The note on verfe 3, is, « This probably...

...void, (that is. it was without regular fhape or ordery and darknefs was on the face of the deep, and the Spirit of God moved on the face of the waters And God faid, Let there be light, and there was light; and God faw the light that it was good : and God...

...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 there...

...system out of the Chaos or water, of which Moses also gives an account. For the latter tells us, that the Spirit of God moved on the face of the waters ; and then that God brought from them, first, light, next the firmament or atmosphere which he calls Heaven,...

...called the Spin IT OF GOD; and the SPIRIT OF THE LORD ; so where he is first mentioned (Gen. i. 2) ' The Spirit of God moved on the face of the waters.' And I doubt not that the name EI.OHIM, which includes a plurality in the same nature, is used in the description...

...repeated no less than thirtyfive times, viz. in the beginning God created the heavens, aud the earth, and the spirit of God moved on the face of the waters, and God said, let there be light, aud God saw the light, &c. &c. But immediately from the beginning of...

...truth a nnu moral creation ; and as at the first creation all was darkness, confusion, and chaos, till the spirit of God moved on the face of the waters, and this fair fabric of earth was framed ; so in the moral world all was doubt, ignorance, and fear, till Jesus...

...no ,)c".than thirty-five times, viz. " In the heginning Gou created the heavens and the earth, and the spirit of GOD moved on the face of the waters, and GOD said, Let there he light, and GOD saw the light," &c. &c. But immediately from the heginning of...

...called BRAHM ; beyond all comprehension, great, invisible, almighty. Nara, is water ; Ayan, moving : and the " Spirit of God moved on the face of the waters ;" and the lotos floated, giving birth to Brahma, &c. " Pensive in the lotos lay, That blossom'd at his touch,...

...earth. And the earth was without form, and void ; and darkness was upon the face of th« deep. And the Spirit of God moved on the face of the waters. And God said, Let there be light: and there was light." — Genesis, i. 1, 2, 3. How wond'rous must have...