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Reflections on the Works of God, in the Various Kingdoms of Nature, and on the Ways of Providence, Displayed in the Government of the Universe
Reflections on the Works of God in the Various Kingdoms of Nature and on the Ways of Providence Displayed in the Government of the Universe Author:Christoph Christian Sturm Volume: 2 General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1808 Original Publisher: Albion Press Subjects: Devotional exercises Devotional calendars Natural theology Calendars Devotional literature, German Nature Meditations Religion / Christian Life / Devotional Religion / Devotional Religion / Medi... more »tations Religion / Theology Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: Ulitity of thunder-storms. it contributes to the fertility of the earth. It is ' exceedingly remarkable that though all meteors seem to succeed each other without any regularity, and are different in one year from what they were in the preceding, yet this apparent confusion is productive of incessant fecundity. In this also, O adorable Creator, dost thou manifest thy wisdom and goodness; even in the midst of hail-storms will I praise thee, for thy hand doth great things, and giveth us bread in abundance ! JULY 11. UTILITY or T11UNDIH-STOMMS, It is a duty which cannot fail to appear the more essential to every attentive observer of the works of God, the more it is neglected by the thoughtless, the ignorant, and the ungrateful, to consider all the phenomena of Nature in that point of view, in which the goodness and wisdom of our heavenly Father are rendered conspicuous to the understanding, and are deeply impressed upon our hearts. It cannot, indeed, be denied that God sometimes makes use of natural phenomena to punish the sins of men ; but these individual instances nevertheless tend to the general benefit of the whole, which is the primary object of the Almighty. All Nature furnishes incontestible demonstrations of this truth. We shall now confine our attention to one of these phenomena, which is particularly calculat...« less