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RELIGION, longer truft to tradition, the in{ivuO:or of their childhood, in this 



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great and interefling truth, and foon find that it is impoflible 



be miflake 



this impor 



gument, as 



exiftence of th 



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written with fo legible characHiers in every objecfi 



furrounding them : they foon go back to themfelves, and invefti-. 

 gate their own mental and fenfual faculties, and from thence are 

 gradually led to acknowledge the duties they owe to God, .them- 



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felves, and all the rational, animated, organic, and inanimated crea- 

 tion, which they either find co-operating with, or fubordinate to 

 themfelves. The people at Taheitee preferve their notions relative to 

 the Deity and his worlhip by tradition, and areas yet unable to inr 

 veftigate the neceflity of the exigence of God, the nature of his at- 

 tributes, and the duties they owe him by reafon -, they are therefore 



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ftill in the infant ftate of humanity, not yet ripened to the ufe of ar- 



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gument and reafon in religious matters : and, according to the pre- 

 fent fituation of affairs, a long time muft pafs, befor,e they will 

 be able to bear the. evidence of thefe dodrines, and the radiancy of 

 this truth ; we have only therefore to wifh that we may be per- 

 mitted to fee the minds of thefe excellent people irradiated, by the 

 bright religion taught by nature and reafon -, which , may prepare 

 them for a due reception of the dodrines of the Ghriflian difpehfa- 

 tion. 



Their 



