[272] "The whole period, from the beginning of the primary fossiliferous strata to the present day, _must be great beyond calculation_, and only bear comparison with the astronomical cycles, as might naturally be expected; the earth being without doubt of the same antiquity with the other bodies of the solar system."--Mrs. Somerville's _Physical Geography_. [273] Col. i. 16. [274] Neh. ix. 6. [275] Eph. i. 11. [276] Hooker's _Eccl. Pol._, B. I. c. iii. § 2. [277] Ps. xxxiii. 6. [278] Alluding to a catastrophe which had recently occurred at St. Mary's Church, and which necessitated considerable repairs; in consequence of which, the first four of these Sermons were preached in the Cathedral. [279] Is. xl. 12. [280] Amos v. 8 and ix. 6. [281] St. Matth. xxvii. 45. [282] Exod. x. 21-23. [283] St. Matth. xxiv. 29. [284] Job ix. 5-7. [285] Ps. xxxiii. 9. [286] Gen. i. 4. [287] "Can any one sensible of the value of words suppose," (asks Mr. Goodwin,) "that nothing more is here described, or intended to be described, than _the partial clearing away of a fog_?" (_Essays and Reviews_, pp. 227-8.) No one,--we answer. But to the question, we venture to rejoin another. To _whom_ does this philosopher suppose his pleasantry likely to prove injurious? Is he making Moses ridiculous, or--himself? [288] St. John ix. 5, &c. [289] 1 Tim. vi. 16. [290] 2 Cor. iv. 6. [291] "Whether the writer regarded them as already existing, and only waiting to have a proper place assigned them, may be open to question." (_E. and R._, p. 221.) We accept the alternative given us by Mr. Goodwin. [292] Job xxxviii. 7. [293] Alluding to 1 Kings vii. 21. [294] The test of _Elohim_ and _Jehovah_ has been, by the Germans themselves, given up; "and for this plain reason,--that in many parts of Genesis, [e.g. ch. xxviii. 16-22: xxxi.: xxxix., &c.] it is utterly untenable; the names being so intermingled as to admit of no such division." See the Appendix (C) to the Rev. Henry John Rose's _Hulsean Lectures_ for 1833,--p. 233. [295] Besides in Gen. i. 2, the expression (_tohu bohu_) recurs in Jer. iv. 23 and Is. xxxiv. 11,--both times with clear reference to the earlier place. Jeremiah in fact _quotes_ Genesis. [296] _Eccl. Pol._, B. I. c. iii. § 2. [297] Ps. cxlviii. 5, 6. [298] South's _Sermons_, (Serm. II.) [299] See St. Matth. xix. 4 to 6,--where Gen. i. 27 as well as Gen. ii. 24, are quoted by our SAVIOUR.