...He appointed these lights, their motion, office and use to com pass the earth, to rule the day and the night, and to be for signs, and for seasons, and for days, and for years. Q. 9. What was God's work on, the fifth day ? ., , ,,; "A. On the fifth day, I. God made of the waters,...

...before the sun, the moon, and the stars, which were " set in the " firmament " firmament of Heaven to divide the day from the " night, and to be for signs and for seasons, and " for days and for years." It was not necessary that he should tell them, how this moral system was destroyed, by the wiles of...

...the other planets, as he has done for that which we inhabit, giving them lights in their firmaments, to be for signs and for seasons, and for days and for years, and dividing the light from the darkness, he deduces the presumption, that the Creator has not left...

...confine myself to a few additional observations. These luminaries were set in the firmament of heaven, to divide the day from the night ; and to be for signs and for seasons, for days and for years. Accordingly, they have been the great means of distributing time, from the...

...the earth ;" and having before affirmed, that these " lights in the firmament of the heaven," were to divide the day from the night," and to be " for signs, and for seasons, and for days, and years," what more as an astronomer, that is, of his own age, could he have to say? After...

...created ; and they were at the same time appointed to be " for lights, to give light upon the earth ; and to be for signs, and for seasons, and for days, and for years." At this same time therefore, that is, when these bodies were first created, the motions in the orbits...

...celestial bodies shall retain their course, whicli the Creator planted in the firmament of beaveo, ' to be for signs and for seasons, and for days and for years,' so long shall mankind be tare that they consecrate to the memory of these wonderful events, their proper...

...confine myself to a few additional observations. These luminaries were set in the firmament of heaven, to divide the day from the night ; and to be for signs and for seasons, for days and for years. Accordingly, they have been the great means of distributing time from the beginning,...

...beauty and splendour, »nd were appointed not only " to divide the day from the night," but also " to be for signs and for seasons, and for days and for years," until the time which they measure be no more. In further elucidation of the above view, it may be remarked,...

...the sky " to rule over the day and over the night," — "to divide the light from the darkness," — and to " be for signs, and for seasons, and for days, and for years," on or before the very first day or generation ; for otherwise there could be no solar day, or such...