Planets: Inhabited, Election, Earth

No. 219

PLANETS, the uncertainty of their being inhabited. That some of the planets are such huge things, so vastly bigger than the globe of the earth, is no certain sign of their being inhabited. This planet we dwell upon may, nevertheless, be as it were elected to infinitely greater and more important purposes. Such an election there is with regard to the seed of plants and animals. Where there is one that is used for the purposes for which they are fitted, to produce a future plant or animal, vast multitudes are, as it were, thrown away in divine providence. Those seeds are as great a work of God, perhaps, as the bodies of Saturn or Jupiter, notwithstanding their vast bulk. - WJE 23:253

NOTECARDS

None

TERMS & REFERENCES

Term Set A: planets

Term Set B: inhabited election earth

Max Distance Between Terms = 6

Reference List A/B

WJEO 6:251 - Scientific and Philosophical Writings
WJEO 6:252 - Scientific and Philosophical Writings
WJEO 6:253 - Scientific and Philosophical Writings
WJEO 20:127 - The "Miscellanies," 833-1152
WJEO 23:253 - The "Miscellanies," 1153-1360
WJEO 23:704 - The "Miscellanies," 1153-1360

Reference List B/A

WJEO 6:252 - Scientific and Philosophical Writings
WJEO 11:100 - Typological Writings
WJEO 20:281 - The "Miscellanies," 833-1152
WJEO 23:253 - The "Miscellanies," 1153-1360