Sacred Palaeography, or Discourses on Sacred Subjects

Herein is understood the universal principle of gravitation, or attraction which was impressed original: "imprest" upon the vast mass. We can very easily think of, but not fully grasp original: "comprehend", the consequences of the immense agitation or fermentation of the different component parts of its substance.

Moses informs us of it, in the next verse.

God said, let there be light; and there was light.

This is that famous verse which Longinus the Critic The Greek rhetorician mentioned on the previous page who cited this verse as a prime example of the "sublime" in writing. so much admires.

It means that God separated the ignited ignifyedDerived from the Latin 'ignis' (fire); meaning turned into fire or made glowing with heat. part of matter, heated to the utmost degree; and from it formed the body of the sun: which was now to assist in perfecting his great work.

In the second day, he made the earth, and planets, attendant upon this sun.

In the third day, he formed the sea and the dry land, then follow the words of our text.

And God said, let the earth bring forth grass, the herb yielding seed, and the fruit tree yielding fruit, after his kind; whose seed is in its self, upon the earth, and it was so. and God saw that it was good.

i. e. An abbreviation for the Latin 'id est,' meaning 'that is to say.' it was complete, fair and beautiful, exactly conforming to the divine idea in his mind. An all-perfect copy, from the most excellent original!

And indeed, we may with some reason judge that our Founder, Mr. Fairchild Thomas Fairchild (1667–1729), a celebrated gardener and benefactor who established an annual lecture—often called the "Vegetable Sermon"—to celebrate God's creation of plants., was fully sensible of this. The vegetable world was his province. It was his study, as well as his maintenance. He every day saw, and admired its beauties, and adored the great author of such admirable, such inconceivable perfection.