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folly, ignorance, and vice? Who can understand the mysteries 

 of Brahma, or enter into the abstracted reveries of his priests? 

 They have answered this question themselves, by saying, that as 

 God is a being without shape, of " whom no precise idea can be 

 " formed, the adoration before idols, being ordained by their 

 " religion, God will receive, and consider that as adoration offered 

 " to himself." 



But what saith the God of Israel, the High and Holy One who 

 inhabiteth eternity? " I am the first and I am the last, and besides 

 me there is no God ! Thus saith the Lord thy Redeemer, the 

 Holy One of Israel, who created the heavens, and stretched out 

 the earth, he that giveth breath unto the people upon it, and spirit 

 unto them that walk therein; I am the Lord thy God, that is my 

 name; and my glory will I not give to another, nor my praise to 

 graven images!" And to the poorest of his church, as well as to 

 the kings who should be its nursing fathers, and the queens who 

 should be its nursing mothers, he thus speaks by his prophets; 

 " Comfort ye, comfort ye my people, saith your God ! speak ye com- 

 fortably to Jerusalem, and say unto her, that her warfare is accom- 

 plished, that her iniquity is pardoned! O thou that bringest good 

 tidings to Zion, lift up thy voice, and say unto the cities of Judah, 

 Behold your God!" And hear the language of the great propitia- 

 tory Sacrifice unto these brahmins, senassees, and devotees of 

 every denomination, Avho torture themselves for the expiation 

 of sin : "Look unto me, and be saved! for I am God, and 

 none else !" 



Such is the prophetical language of the Old Testament: in the 

 fulness of time these predictions were verified, and the birth of the 



