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was compofed on any author ancient cr modern, 

 European or Afiatic : and it is this work to which 

 the learned generally apply, on account of its 

 clearnefs. We mall not, however, take up your 

 time with a differtation on the exacl: age of either 

 the Hebrew or the Hindu Scriptures : both are 

 ancient : let the learned judge : but fome extracts 

 from the Hindu and Hebrew accounts of the crea- 

 tion may ferve to ihew how much they agree to- 

 gether : whether the Hindu Brahmens borrowed 

 from Moses, or Moses from the Hindu Brah- 

 mens, is not our prefent enquiry. 



Exlraclsfrom the Laws of Extracts from the Writings 



Menu. of Moses. 



This univerfe exiftedonly In the beginning God 

 in the jirfi dh'mt 'Idea yet nn- created the heaven and 

 expanded, as if involved in the earth. (Gen. Lj.) 

 darknefs, imperceptible, 

 undefinable, undifcovera- 

 ble by reafon. and undiscov- 

 ered by revelation, as if it 

 were wholly immerfed in 

 fleep ; (chap. i. 5.) 



Then the file felf-exift- 

 ing power, hknfelf undifr. 

 cerned, but making this 

 world difcernible, with five 

 elements and other princi- 

 ples of nature, appeared 

 with undiminifhed glory, 

 expanding his idea, or dispell- 

 ing the gloom, (ib. 6.) 



He, whom the mind 

 alone can perceive, whofe 

 eflence eludes the external 

 organs, who has no vifible 



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