REMARKS 



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RELIGION, happinefs which every individual feels ftrongly in 



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notwithflanding the prejudices of education, and the voiles of vice 

 and predominant luxury ; it becomes more and mofe evident that 

 the Supreme Being deferves our humble adoration, our warmell 

 attachment, and our unfeigned love : that we ought to exert our 



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faculties in examining and fludying the immenfe and infinite powers 



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•and perfedions of this being; that it fliould be our chief 

 thought and earneft endeavour to imitate, and to approximate the 

 bright virtues of this great prototype of perfection and goodnefs -, 



to behave in a manner becoming the many 



and relations 



which the creator has been pleafed to conned us with him and 

 other fubordinate beings. The above ideas or others to the fame 



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purpofe, form the ground work of true religion, of all natural 

 ■obligations, moral virtues and religious worfhip. The ideas of 

 the inhabitants of the South Sea illands on this head, are v/e may 

 fuppofe, lefs clear, perfeft and refined : however they acknowledge 



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an almighty invifible lord and creator of the univerfe, who executed 



fubord 



power 



the various parts of his creation 



ful beings. They are of opinion that he is good and omnifcient; that 



he fees and hears all human actions, and is the givef of all good gifts. 



They feel their own wants, and therefore apply for redrefs to the 

 Supreme Being, and offer to him, with a grateful heart, the beil 



gifts of their lands. They acknowledge to have a being within 



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