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becaufe they expand in all the circumflances, in 

 which they feel the attributes of Deity, fuch as that 

 pf infinity, and never dwell with delight on the 

 Earth, except on the attrapions of virtue and in- 

 nocence. 



PF SOME OTHER SENTIMENTS OF DEITY, AND AMONG 

 OTHERS, OF THAT OF VIRTUE. 



There are, befides thefe, a great number of fen- 

 timental Laws, which it has not been in my power, 

 at prefent, to unfold : fuch are thofe which fug- 

 geft pre-fentiments, omens, dreams, the reference 

 of events, fortunate and unfortunate, to the fame 

 epochs, and the like. Their efFeds are attefled 

 among Nations, polifhed and favage, by Writers 

 profane and facred, and by every man who pays at- 

 tention to the Laws of Nature. Thefe communica- 

 tions of the foul, with an order of things invifible, 

 are rejeâied by the learned of modern times, be- 

 caufe they come not within the province of their 

 fyftems and of their almanacs j but how m.any 

 things exift, which are not reducible to the plans 

 of our reafon, and which have not been fo much 

 as perceived by it ! 



There are particular laws which demonftrate the 

 immediate adion of Providence on the Human 



Race, 



