The Neptunian, or Water Theory of Creation
CHAPTER II.
THE NEPTUNIAN THEORY WAS FIRST BROUGHT TO LIGHT IN THE BOOK OF JOB, DATED IN THE STARS. EPIDRAMATIC ORATORIO 55
Orient the place for such a poem 57
First question established 58
The indictment against piety amended 59
The prologue ended with Satan confounded 59
These persons all representative characters 60
Starting the drama of history. Piety endures the trials of all ages 61
Job rewarded on the field. Flood passed 64
Surrounded by universal idolatry 65
Certain chapters Messianic 66
Resurrection reached 68
The enemies boast of the secular arm of law 69
The Reformation reached 70
The voice of space 72
Dead organic matter, as fossils, speaking 73
An explanation of the story of Joshua’s miracle. The three friends silenced. Secular education personified 75
True loyal prayer, against unsupported illegal faith, and prayer without faith 77
The Copernican system seen by Job, with the sedimentary nature of granite 79
The rotundity of Earth with the inside water 81
The birth-place of ancient icebergs 83
The telegraph seen and dated 84
Description of certain fossils 85
The grand future of the church of the living God 86