...Archbishop Usher, to the 7th day of December, the rains commenced. On that day, " all the fountains of the great deep were broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened:" the waters contained in the body of the earth being expanded by heat, forced themselves on the surface,...

...month, and the seventeenth day of thc month.* Q. What happened on that day ?t A. All the fountains of the great deep were broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened: and the rain which then commenced, lasted forty days and forty nights. | • The Antediluvian Patriarchs lived before...

...seemed to Dr. Collins not improbable, that it had been carried and laft iharo wlwi: " tho fountains of the great deep were broken up and the windows of heaven opened," and the flood of waters covered the highest mountains, and all the people in the world except...

...his indignation was full, and the earth exhibited but one continued scene of his wrath, the fountains of the great deep were broken up, and the windows of Heaven were opened, and all in whose nostrils was the breath of life, died. Here the general visitations• of Providence ceased,...

...his indignation was full, and the earth exhibited but one continued scene of his wrath, the fountains of the great deep were broken up, and the windows of Heaven were opened, and all in whose nostrils was the breath of life, died. Here the general visitations of Providence ceased,...

...second month, the seventeenth day of the month, the same day were all the fountains of the great deep broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened....And the rain was upon the earth forty days and forty nights. In the self same day entered Noah, and Shem, and Ham, and Japbeth, the sons ofNoah, and Noah's...

...second month, the seventeenth day of the month, the same day were all the fountains of the great deep broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened....And the rain was upon the earth forty days and forty nights. Gen. vii. 11. 861 Anon dry ground appears, and from his ark The ancient sire descends with...

...family, and God had shut them in : then " were all the fountains of the great deep * Gen. vi. 5, 6. 80 broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened,...and the rain was upon the earth forty days and forty nights." What awful lessons did the despisers of God's word receive of its unfailing truth ! How soon...

...near Saturn on the 15th, Mars on the 20th and 21st, and ; Jupiter on the 27th. \ " When the fountains of the great deep were broken up, and the windows of, heaven were opened, and the floods came, and a long night of darkness, the good > man in the ark remembered the stars, that studded...

...last slumber, by the raging waters of Almighty wrath. And when the morning came, and all the fountains of the great deep were broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened, and the mighty torrent began to fall, — how strange must have been the conflict in every breast, between...