| Bibliography - 1722 - 494 pages
...by Mofes, Pfalm XC. 10. is manifeftly an Appointment of the fame infinite Lord who rules the World. By this Means the peopled World is kept at a convenient Stay, neither too full, nor too empty. For if the Generality of Men were to live now to Methufalah's Age ot 969 Years, or only to 175 Years, which... | |
| Thomas Short - Great Britain - 1750 - 542 pages
...120 Years; after it, in Mofes's Time, to 70 or 80, (in both thefe the Texts are egregioufly mifd.)By this Means the peopled World is kept at a convenient Stay, neither too lull nor too empty ; for if the Generality of Men were to live either to the ante-diluvian Ages, or... | |
| Thomas Short - Great Britain - 1750 - 536 pages
...after it, in Mofes's Time, to 70 or So, (in both thefe the Texts are egregioujly mifDiifipptied.)By this Means the peopled World is kept at a convenient Stay, neither too fall nor too empty; for if the Generality of Men were to live either to the ante-diluviaii Ages, or... | |
| William Derham - God - 1754 - 506 pages
...Man to 70 or 80 Years (e), (the Age mention'd by Motfes, P/al. xc. i o. this, I fay,) is manifestly an Appointment of the fame infinite Lord that ruleth...(the Generality of them, I mean) were to live now to Metbufelab's Age of 969 Years, or only to Abraham's, long after the Flood, of 175 Years, the World... | |
| William Derham - Astronomy - 1786 - 482 pages
...in Shropfliire, every fixth foul was fixty years of age, or upwards. 'Phil. Tranf. No. 310. Qjt And Pfal. xc. 10. this, I fay,) is manifeftly an appointment...this means, the peopled world is kept at a convenient flay; neither too full nor too empty. For if men (the generality of them, I mean) were to live now... | |
| Sir John Sinclair - Hygiene - 1807 - 852 pages
...the lessening of the common age of man to 70 or 80 years was a wise appointment, by means of which, the peopled world is kept at a convenient stay, neither too full nor too empty. Whereas, if the generality of .men were to live to the age of Methuselah, every countrywould soon be... | |
| David Collyer - 1815 - 420 pages
...man was lessened to seventy or eighty years ; which is manifestly an appointment of the same Lord who ruleth the world; for by this means the peopled world...convenient stay, neither too full nor too empty; for if the generality of men were to live now to Abraham's age, of an hundred and seventy-five years, the... | |
| Sir John Sinclair - Agriculturists - 1831 - 752 pages
...of man to seventy or eighty yrars is manifestly aii appointment of the same infinite providence ; as by this means the peopled world is kept at a convenient stay." PhysicoTheology, book iv. cha})ter x. It may indeed happen, that from the circumstances of a particular... | |
| Sir John Sinclair - Agriculturists - 1831 - 618 pages
...of man to seventy or eighty years is manifestly an appointment, of the same infinite providence; as by this means the peopled world is kept at a convenient stay." PhysicoTheology, book iv. chapter x. It may indeed happen, that from the circumstances of a particular... | |
| Sir John Sinclair - Agriculturists - 1831 - 590 pages
...of man to seventy or eighty years is manifestly an appointment of the same infinite providence ; as by this means the peopled world is kept at a convenient stay." PliysicoTheology, book iv. chapter x. It may indeed happen, that from the circumstances of a particular... | |
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