expansive and unruffled ocean of reason and inquiry, and there, free from the storms of persecution, and the squalls of denunciation, proceed, on our onward course, in security and felicity. R. C. TABLE OF CONTENTS. Passages inconsistent.... Immateriality. Omnipresence. Omnipotence. Omniscience. Munificence. Impartiality. Immutability. Incomprehensibility.. Passages Immoral and Obscene Passages Absurd and Unnatural. Passages Contradictory.. IMMATERIALITY. "God is a spirit." John iv. 24.. 1. So God created man _in his own image_, in the _image of God_ created he him; male and female-created he them. Gen. i. 27. 2. The _eyes_ of the lord are in everyplace, beholding the evil and the good. Prov. xv. 3. 3. So shall my word be that goeth from out of my _mouth_; it shall not return unto me void, but it shall accomplish that which I please, and it shall prosper in the thing whereto I sent it. Isaiah lv. 11. 4. Which say, Stand by thyself, come not near to me for I am holier than thou; these are a smoke in my _nose_, a fire that burneth all the day. Isaiah lxv. 5. 5. Behold the name of the Lord cometh from afar burning with his anger and the burden thereof is heavy: his _lips_ are full of indignation, and his _tongue_ as a devouring fire. Isaiah xxxth, 27. 6. And when we cried unto the Lord God of our fathers, the Lord _heard_ our voice and _looked_ on our affliction, and our labor and our oppression. Deut. xxvi. 7. 7. Lord, bow down thine _ear_ and hear, open thine eyes and see; and hear the words of Sennacherib, which hath sent him to reproach the living God. 2 Kings xix. 16. 8. And he said unto me, Son of man, the place of my throne, and the place of the _soles_ of my _feet_, where I will dwell in the midst of the children of Israel for ever, and my holy name, shall the house of Israel no more defile, neither they nor their kings, by their whoredom, nor by the carcases of their kings in their high places. Ezek. xliii. 7. 9. And I myself will fight against you with an outstretched hand, and with a strong _arm_ even in anger, and in fury, and in great wrath. Jer. xxi. 5. 10. The Lord hath made bare his _holy arm_, in the eyes of all the nations, and all the ends of the earth shall see the salvation of our God. Isaiah lii. 10. 11. When I consider the heavens, the work of thy _fingers_, the moon and the stars which thou hast ordained. Psalms viii. 3. 12. And he gave unto Moses, when he had made an end of communing with him upon Mount Sinai, two tables of testimony, tables of stone, written with the _finger_ of God. Exod. xxxi. 18. 13. And I saw as the color of amber, as the appearance of fire round about within it, from the appearance of his _loins_ even upward, and from the appearance of his loins even downward, I saw as it were the appearance of fire, and it had brightness round about it. Ezek. i. 27. 14. And it repenteth the Lord that he had made man upon the earth, and it grieved him at his _heart_, Gen. vi. 6.