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seeing he giveth to all life, and breath, and all things; and hath 

 made of one blood all nations of men, and hathdetermined the 

 times, and the bounds* of their habitation: that they should seek 

 the Lord, if haply they might feel after him, and find him; 

 though he be not far from every one of us; for in him we live, 

 and move, and have our being; as certain also of your own poets 

 have said, for we are also his offspring. Forasmuch then as we 

 are the offspring of God, we ought not to think that the Godhead 

 is like unto gold, or silver, or stone, graven by art, and man's de- 

 vice. And the times of this ignorance God winked at; but now 

 commandeth all men every where to repent; because he hath ap- 

 pointed a day, in the which he will judge the world in righteous- 

 ness by him who he hath ordained; whereof he hath given assur- 

 ance unto all men, in that he raised him from the dead/' 



Had a man the power of Demosthenes, or the eloquence ofTully, 

 what could he say more than the apostle preached in that short dis- 

 course before the wisest men of Greece? It is equally applicable 

 to the brahmins, and all their deluded followers: for we must not be 

 guided by the opinion of certain modern philosophers, or the super- 

 ficial observers of local manners and customs in foreign countries; 

 but we must repair to the unerring standard of truth ; there we 

 shall see in what these applauded brahmins are deficient : and not 

 them only, hut their advocates of every description, who, in a 

 christian country, set up the oriental standard of holiness. We 

 shall there also see the situation of Voltaire and his disciples in the 

 eyes of a pure and holy God! for, without redeeming love, 

 and the sanctifying influence of the Holy Spirit, what is man? 

 What he is by nature we know from the lives and conduct of the 



