This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1880 edition. Excerpt: ...ye look for such things, be diligent i that ye may be found of him in peace, without spot, and blameless. 15 And account that V1 Cor. 1. 8; 15.58 i Phil. 1.10:1 Thesj. 3.13; 5.23. tho ronowed sphere corresponding to our earth is, by sucli final crystallization, completed. Yet, on the other hand, the old traditions generally held that the new would be simply a transformation of the old, and such might seem the natural, but not necessary, impression derived from Paul's language, Romans viii, 18-23, where see note. A renovation of the same substance may be indicated by Peter's analogy of the flood, (verse 6, ) but that seems rather adduced only as instance of a supernatural break of the ordinary course of events, and is applicable to either view. Ou these points astronomy neither aids nor impedes us much. If we suppose a new sphere made from the old energies, such an event need not bo supposed ever yet, in the physical history of the universe, to have been completed, at least within reach of the astronomer's glass. New stars have been supposed to be observed to come into existence, but that supposition was probably the result of inaccurate observation. Stars have been seen apparently in conflagration; so that a burning world is no unsupposable thing. Stars have been seen for a while in apparent conflagration, and then resuming a natural appearance; so that a burned and renewed world is not, astronomically, unthinkable. To the eye of the astronomer the conflagration of a star may look accidental, like the burning of a house. But to the Omniscient eye there is no accident. Every particle of the most confused masses is not only ruled by law, but taken into the divine plan. Pope has well said, "All nature is but art unknown to thee, All...