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able to give you, not less, but much stronger proofs that God 
exists I will appeal, if not directly to your eyes and senses, 
that you may see and touch the Eternal Cause of all things, 
yet cLsirin° r you to make good use of these, to your better and 
nobler partf to your intelligence, reasoning power. «d unaer- 
standing * and (to revert to the tumbler) I w g J 
reasons 8 for believing that God exists, and is your and my 
Creator as strong, at the very least, as you have for believing 
that tWs glass was made and fashioned by an intelligent man, 
which I take for granted you do believe even ^ though^ you 
may never have seen glass-blowing in opera ion, 
* who made this, or -bora “ ; 2! U 
though I mi^ht fail to be able to prove what particular man 
made this tumbler, or what particular manufactory it came 
“£ X .h.“ S h ii mi e bt really be .b.l.W, « '» 
man but the aotoal mute to do “ “"fe" 
rational proof, or probable evidence, to satisfy all ot us that 
2 St w^ich the Christian 'and even the Jew jgk ines m p«- 
sessino- —still do furnish rational proof that the world 
work of God, , c„ of an invisible and -tellig^ Power, U ho 
hint Bdng the First Cause or origin of all things ; and, this 
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the existence of our own invisible, intelligent spirit. 
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evidence itiieiou^fcllo'i-nmn thai w^ p°«s e ss it,^and tliat^it 
