The caves of the earth : their natural history, features, and incidents.

Date:
[1848?]
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: The caves of the earth : their natural history, features, and incidents. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    parently disastrous events, yet conserving the general good, a natural arrangement har- monizing with the view taken of the moral condition of men in the Scriptures, as subject to a sad peculiarity which merits chastisement, yet still the objects of mercy as well as judg- ment. It also brings before us in operation at present, instruments of change, modifying and altering the surface of the globe, and occa- sionally originating great catastrophes of a kindred nature to those recorded in the inspired history of man, when “ all the fountains of the gi’eat deep were broken up,” and still farther back, when “ the waters under the heaven ” were “ gathered together unto one place,” and the dry land appeared. These instruments now lie close at hand, and only wait the Divine mandate to act with the intensity formerly dis- played, inducing that momentous physical change anticipated on the sacred page, “in which the elements shall melt with fervent heat, the earth also and the w'orks that are therein shall be burned up.” Such are some of the important relations between that which the natural world re- veals to our senses, and that which is pro- posed to faith “ by the Avord of God, Avhich