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it may appear to thinking men, has been kept up 

 in terrorem, with uncommon pains, for hundreds of 

 years past, and is continued with unabating fer- 

 vency to the present time. That mankind should 

 suffer under this condemnation, for the fault of 

 these our first parents, seems impiously to set 

 aside the justice of an All-wise and Benevolent 

 God. 



As to the time it took to create this world, 

 and the whirling, floating, universe of which it 

 is comparatively a speck or mote that is beyond 

 human comprehension ; and Time, Eternity a 

 Beginning and an End are still much more 

 beyond the reach of thought ; for the powers of 

 the mind would soon become bewildered and lost 

 in attempting to form any conception, by figures, 

 of what is meant by innumerable millions of 

 centuries : and here on this subject we must 

 rest ! This sublime this amazing this mighty 

 work of suns and worlds innumerable is too 

 much for the vision of a finite, purblind, proud, 

 little atom of the Creation, strutting, or crawling 

 about in the shape of man. It is sufficient for 

 the soul of man in this life to reverence and 

 adore the Omnipresent, and, except through His 

 works, the unknowable God, whose wisdom, and 

 power, and goodness, has no bounds, and who 

 has been pleased to enable his reasoning creatures 

 so far to see that everything is made by design, 

 and nothing by chance ; and, from the display 

 of His infinite power, that everything in the 

 universe is systematic ; all is connection, ad- 

 hesion, affinity: hence we may infer some prin- 

 ciple of order, some moving power, some mighty 



agent but all this still ends in the name of 



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