Excerpt from Logic of the Scriptures: Or Perfect Reason, Harmony and Consistency in Both the Old and the New TestamentsLight? For the second chapter declares more fully. The first three verses close the subject matter of the first chap ter. J'he second chapter and fourth Jerse reads, 'fin the day that the Lord God made the earth and theheavens, (verse And every plant of the field before it was in the earth, and every herb of the field before it the Lord God had not caused it to ram upon the and there was not a man to till the ground. How could it ever have been thought and taught that the first chap. Ter conveyed the idea of formation or existence, in view of this plain language, that so utterly forbids the idea? But with the idea it g1ves us an account of the devising of everything, or the ordaining of everything, devising or designing the perfect order of everythmg, and of the period m which everything should be called into being. Then we may have a faint idea of the propriety of the six days' labor and the: one day's rest, for we could have no idea that it would, cost the Infinite either time or labor to order a world into existence. But the exercise of wisdom and thought to arrange all creation of all thin gs and every character that exists, and all to answer theirc purpose as they do, and all planets or worlds to move with the har mony and precision that they are seen and known to move such vast exercise of the Spirit (which 1s the mmd of the Creator) might require a period that is termed six days, and a? Seventh to. 'rest. But if the critic ask what is the six days, I would say, I do not know, and you do not w, it 'matters not who you are. If we try to make it.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.