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nate it, no fire to warm it, and in which no- 

 thing subsisted but the omnipresence of the 

 Almighty, who " moved with his spirit upon the 

 face of the waters." When God said, Let there 

 be light, and there was light, it was not said, 

 let there be fire, let there be color, but it was 

 said, Let there be light ; at this eventful period, 

 a new order of things immediately arose, and 

 effects the most violent, it is to be supposed? 

 immediately followed ; although these effects 

 were produced through the instrumentality of 

 secondary causes, they emanated more imme- 

 diately from the energy of Almighty Power ; 

 and it is but reasonable to suppose, that those 

 effects were as infinitely greater, than any that 

 have since happened, as the power of God 

 transcends the power of man. If it be not 

 presumptuous to form a conjecture upon such 

 a subject, I should say that the union and com- 

 bination which immediately took place between 

 the light and the waters that were above the 

 surface of the earth, was followed by the con- 

 version of both into air ; that the action of the 

 light and air upon the opaque matter of which 

 the earth is composed, became the immediate 

 cause, of which fire was the direct and imme- 

 diate effect, the ultimate consequences of 

 which were felt far and near ; and that a ge- 

 neral disruption of the solid nucleus of the 

 earth, and a separation of the whole into two 



