Litchfield enquirer. [volume] (Litchfield, Conn.) 1829-current, 1845-05-22

heavens themselves, which are liable to be changed,
and 70 he rolled together a. a scroll" and pass
away forever. in temporal though not in an ster-
nal sense Of the term. But does the all creative
power Of God stop here! Certainly not. He will
create :. new heavens, and new earth, wherein
dweIlesh righteousness. g The fool hath said In
his heart, there Is no Cod. = =. a,s. a.ssw
That Che iabors Of Astronomers have contribu-
ted muchtO improve the mind. and enlighten the
understanding, as well as to confirm the trut h. of
the Sacred oracles Of God is no longer matter Of
doubt. Yet there have been many weak and slEep-
ticaG minds even in modern times, who have exc
pressed their entire disbelief, not only in those
glorious truths which Astronomy itself has deye-
loped, but in the stronger claims Of the Sacred
Writings to Divine authenticity. Such are to be
pited and all the arguments that can be deduced
from the everlasting Fountain Of Truth, il they
have heretofore tailedatC convince them or theip
error, would still leave them in the darkness Of
their own obstinate and incuraBle sophistry vic
Tins Atheism. and candidates for the bOttomlsss
PIT Of everlasting pefdition. They would not "Be-
lieve, though one rose from the dead''@ 5Ht
Some have gone 50 far as to say, that admitting
the Bible TO be true, the account which Moses
gives Of the Creation isuttery opposed to the doc
trines taught by Astronomer; for why, say they,
were the stars created, but merely to give light
to this terrestrial world You might, therefore,
as well undertake to convince US, that mere tapers
and rush lights are suns having worlds revolving
around them. as that the stars are The passage.
to which they appeal, is as follows e And God
made two great lights; the greater light TO. rule
the day, and the lesser light to rule the nights he
made the stars ALSO And God set them in the fir
mament of heaven. to give light upon the earth;
And to rule over the day and over the night, and
TO divide the light from the darkness and God
saw that il was good. - Gen, l. 16--l9.a 10 ss,a
What, then, do the sun, moon. and stars signify,
they further ask, but mere lights to enlghten the
! world in which we live ,s8,q,,es ,g,l,
To this answer-That it was not the design of
the inspired writer to describe the particular forms,
substances, or natures Of any material objects of
Creation but he uses only general terms. For
instance. he represents God as saying, I" Let the
Earth bring forth grass, the herb yielding seed af-
ter his kind. and the sfruit-tree yielding fruit,
whose, seed is in itself upon the earth: and it
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beneyolencesa Of God. For had The Bible described
every minute particular in the Creation, no labor
had been left for men 10 perform in the pursuit Of
knowledge
God il represented furthermore no saving 70
Job;-a Canst thou, bind the sweet influences Of
Pleiades, or loose the bands Of Orion, Canst tbon
bring forth Mazzaroth in his season or cast thou
guide Arcturus with his sons r'-Lob xxxvu. a.
80. In this awfnlly sublime allus;on IN some If
the Consultations. Arcturns il renrssen,ed "a no.
wing sons What kind of sons /, Sons Of Lioh,, a.
a matter Of course. And who. are the Sons Of
Light, but the holy Angels and Archange,s of Il.
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nr from the Bible. that other ,vorlds are occ,r;ed
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