...testimony — ^hat given in the first chapter of Genesis — that we understand " the worlds were framed by the word of God, so that the things which are seen were not made of things which do appear;" that is, were not moulded out of previously existing, or eternally existing...

...harmony with the view for which we are contending, and apparently conclusive of it, is' Heb. xi. 3, "By faith we understand that the worlds were formed by...God, so that the things which are seen, were not made from those which do appear." It cannot be justly questioned that the Divine declaration, by faith in...

...elders were commended. ™t"0Jen?f 'WnifS 3 Through faith we understand that the worlds were framed by the word of God, so that the things which are seen were not made of things which do appear. 4 By faith Abel offered unto God a more excellent sacrifice than Cain, on...

...truth, and from their silent yet responsive pages read, in miniature, the world's history. Hero we learn that "the things which are seen were not made of things that do appear." There was not merely a remodeling of previously existing matter, but a creation in the proper sense...

...the description of the indescribable unattempted*. His appeal is to the same faith which believes " that the worlds were formed by the Word of God, so that things which are seen, were not made of things which do appear." (Heb. xi. 3.) An analogy has been...

...attended to what he had revealed to them ; they might have known by faith, that the worlds were framed by the word of God; so that the things which are seen were not made by those things which do appear "/ ie they were the works not of visible causes, but of an invisible...

...things not seen. It is by a faith of that kind, he says, that we understand that the worlds were framed by the word of God ; . so that the things which are seen, were not made of the things which do appear. Our Saviour himself gave us this caution against the presumption of...

...Hebrews is introduced with the declaration that " through faith we understand that the worlds were framed by the word of God, so that the things which are seen were not made of things which do appear" (xi. 3). And writing to the Ephesians, concerning the creation of man and...

...from their silent, yet responsive pages, read, in miniature, the world's history. Here we may learn that " the things which are seen, were not made of things that do appear." There was not merely a remodeling of previously existing matter, but a creation. God, by his omnific...

...doing or suffering, with the light and bloom of immortality upon us. The same power of mind by which we understand that the worlds were formed by the word of God, and that things that are seen were not made of things that appear, is that by which we also believe...