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gion, (for no man can be truly religious who does not perceive the 

 beauty of holinefs), this fhows the wifdom and goodnefs of God, 

 who has made a fenfe of the beautiful fo congenial to our nature as 

 intelligent beings, that we cannot have the leaft degree of intelli- 

 gence without fome fenfe of it. — So that we appear to be formed by 

 nature for virtue and religion. 



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