*The Numerals refer to the Volumes; the Arabic Figures to the pages of each volume.
Abeillard, Theological system of, described, i. 152.
Aben Ezra, his view of the meaning of , i. 209. His inter- pretation of the Waters above the Firmament' in the Mosaic account of the Creation, ii. 149.
Anaxagoras, the ovcía áráμaros the distinctive tenet of his phi- losophy, i. 148.
Arenaceous Rocks, important data furnished by, in the Mineral history of the globe, ii. 163.
Augustine, St. his view of them in Genes. i. 2., i. 227.
Bacon, his observations respecting philosophers of the Rational class, i. 148. his view of the doctrine of Second Causes, i. 156.
Na, meaning of, according to Rosenmüller, i. 207. Contro- verted, ibid. Distinction between, and y, as laid down by the older Grammarians, i. 208.
Buckland, Dr., his hypotheses relative to the Beginning' of Genes. i. 1., and the Days of the Hexaëmeron, i. 198. sq. Proper acceptation of the former considered, i. 213.
Cabbalists, their mode of interpreting Scripture, i. 147. Causes, Second, their Necessity controverted, not the Fact of their being employed in the demiurgic agencies, i. 205. Chaos, supposition of, as a primary state of Matter, incon- sistent with the principles of the Newtonian philosophy, i. 179. Chemistry, Attestation of, to the truth of the Mosaic account of the Creation, ii. 134.
Clericus, his observations on the text, Genes. i. 26., i. 195. Coal, position of, important, as throwing light on the early
history of our planet, ii. 207. sq. Probable epoch of its for- mation, ibid. 208. Experiments respecting, instituted by Dr. Macculloch, and Mr. Hatchett, ib. 206.
Coal-measures, a groupe, the study of which is of great im- portance in researches respecting the early history of the globe, ii. 162.
Cocceius, his opinion respecting the construction of ', in opposition to that of Grotius, i. 269.
Coincidence, at the period assigned by Moses to the ope- rations of the Hexaëmeron, of the Sun's Perigee and the Vernal Equinoctial point, ii. 182.
Creation, Agency of, properly so called, antecedent to the Mosaic era of the Hexaemeron, i. 165. Doctrine of, essen- tial to the purity of Theistic belief, i. 173.; foundation of the first principles of Natural Theology, ibid. Act of, inde- pendent of Time, i. 184. Doctrine of, not inconsistent with the supposition of the after agency of Second Causes, i. 185. Basis of its proof, independently of Scripture, i. 190. Mr. Esdaile's view of, i. 191. Not an Occult cause, being attest- ed by Reason, and Natural phænomena, ibid. Must neces- sarily be admitted with respect to a principle which presup- poses not organization, i. 193. Difficulties which oppose themselves to assigning it as a cause, in any particular species of inorganic matter, i. 193. sq. Example of this, Primitive Rocks, according to Mr. Penn's theory of their formation, i. 205. sq. Jewish doctrine of, alleged as an evidence of the inspiration of their Sacred writers, i, 210. reconcileable with the succession of operation, as implied in the Second Verse of the first Chapter of Genesis, ii. 131. Act of, properly so termed, not implied in the Third Verse, ii. 132. Mosaic ac- count of, not derived from the Egyptians, ii. 141. Testimony of Sir William Jones relative to this, ibid. Mosaic account of, addressed to a supposed Percipient, ii. 187. This supposi- tion interferes not with that of a just philosophical lan- guage, ibid. Agency of, in the several parts of the Ma- terial world, not necessarily to be regarded as exerted simul et semel, ii. 193. Darkness, (n, Genes. i. 2.,) probable meaning of, i. 223. Deluge, the Universal, Deluc's hypothesis respecting, i. 178. Certain Divines solicitous to account for, on Natural prin- ciples, ii.209. Error of this mode of proceeding, ibid. et sq. Attestations of Geologists to the truth of the Mosaic Re- cord, in the period which it assigns to, ii. 210. Phænomena on which its evidence is rested, as stated in the Reliquiæ Di- luvianæ, ii. 211. Conflicting theories of Dr. Buckland and
Mr. Penn, respecting, ii, 212. Observations on that of the latter, ibid. et ss. Important distinction to be observed in this question, ii. 214.
Demiurge, doctrine of the, whence originating, i. 145. Demiurgic, agencies, attempt at arrangement of, from the in- dications of Genes. i. 2. ibid. 218. ss. Epochs, observations on M. Ramond's doctrine concerning, i. 239.ss. When sub- jected to actual measures of time, i. 240. ii. 202. Design, defects in M. de la Place's conception of, as re- gards the establishment of the present order of things, i.
NW, true sense of, as distinguished from wy, in Genes. i. 11. Vol. ii. 152. Purport of this distinction, conformable to the spirit of the Mosaical philosophy, ii. 152.
Diluvian waters, Reflex current of, a supposition countenanced by the words of Scripture, ii. 176.
Egyptians, Theology of the, formed no part of the Mosaical, i. 218. The latter essentially abhorrent from the former, ii. 142. sq. Diodorus' account of the, ii. 141. sq. Demiurgic system of, wholly at variance with the Mosaical, ii. 144. Branches of Education usual amongst, as detailed by Diodo- rus, ii. 144. Sacerdotal system of the, as viewed by Pr. Creuzer, ii. 142.
Elohim, Agencies of the, as announced in the Mosaic Record, distributed over Four periods, ii. 196. Construction of the Hebrew term, regarded as indicative of the Trinitarian doc- trine, i. 248. ss. Evidence, Cumulative, defined, i. 166. Moral, distinction be- tween the relation of a system to, and to that founded on Philosophical principles, i. 167. Independent Moral,' of Scripture, in what consists the, i. 168.
Faber, hypothesis of Mr, respecting the Days of the Hexaë- meron, examined on physical principles, i. 199. ss. Contro- verted, ii. 215. Supposition of, not less untenable, that the Vicissitude of Seasons, accompanied by a change in the length of the year, commenced at the time of the Deluge, ii.
Final Causes, observations on Newton's doctrine of, as also on that of the Intelligence inherent in a First Cause of be- ing, in the Système du Monde, i. 145. Of pre-eminent im- portance in the present state of Natural science, i. 168. Not limited, as principles of research, to Natural History, i. 169. Subservience of the natural effect to, illustrated, ibid.
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