THE

PRE-ADAMITE EARTH:

CONTRIBUTIONS

TO

THEOLOGICAL SCIENCE.

BY

JOHN HARRIS, D. D.

PRESIDENT OF CHESHUNT COLLEGE,

AUTHOR OF THE GREAT TEACHER," "GREAT COMMISSION," 66 MAMMON," ETC.

BOSTON:

GOULD, KENDALL AND LINCOLN,

59

WASHINGTON STREET.

1847.

ANDOVER THEOL. SEMINARY

MAR 5-1907

- LIBRARY.

BOSTON:

Printed by S. N. Dickinson & Co. 52 Washington Street.

58,698

CHAP. I. THE GREAT REASON; or, why God is, and must be His

own End from everlasting to everlasting...

13

CHAP. II. THE ULTIMATE PURPOSE; or, the Manifestation of the

Divine All-sufficiency, the last end of creation..

20

CHAP. III. THE FUNDAMENTAL RELATION; or, the Manifestation

of the Divine All-sufficiency Mediatorial...

CHAP. IV. THE PRIMARY OBLIGATION; or, Duty arising from the

Mediatorial Relation

34

CHAP. V. THE SUPREME RIGHT; or, Mediatorial Authority and

Happiness commensurate with the discharge of Obliga-

tion....

SECOND PART.

PRINCIPLES DEDUCEABLE FROM THE PRECEDING LECTURES; or,

Laws of the Manifestation··

THIRD PART.

42

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INORGANIC NATURE; the first Stage of the Manifestation: Power....

64

FOURTH PART.

Page.

ORGANIC; the Second Stage of Divine Manifestation: Power and

Wisdom

130

FIFTH PART.

SENTIENT EXISTENCE; the Third Stage of the Divine Manifestation:

II. ILLUSTRATIVE OF THE THEORY OF SUCCESSIVE CREATIONS.... 282

INDEX

287

It may save the reader some trouble to be apprised, that the or-
der in which the Principles are stated in the Second Part is not the
order in which they are subsequently illustrated. The order in which
they are illustrated in the Third, Fourth, and Fifth Parts, is the same.