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294 tary, and to the Reprobate impossible. They could adore no God, for the character they ascribe to the Creator is one which the nature the true God has given them forces them to abhor.”

“What! Shall we despise a man who acts justly or benevolently, merely for the sake of admiration, and shall we dare to attribute such a motive to the infinitely Pure? Shall we contemn a man (a man who has equals for admirers) if he build an almshouse for the sake of applause? and shall we venture to affirm that He, whose ineffable happiness could not be increased by the united hallelujahs of the created Universe, has yet designed and built the starry heavens for no more noble a purpose?”