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 (16.) The firt adoration of mankind was paid, no doubt, to heaven and earth, and this worhip was nothing ele than a entiment of gratitude emanating from the heart. Ridiculous! ays the Chritian, to worship brute bodies who betow this benign influence from neceity, and without the entiment of benevolence. Yes, but the avage feels and admires, and does not calculate nicely to ecape from the demands of gratitude.—But if we are not to pay our worhip to any thing in heaven or on the earth, to what then is our adoration due? To an inviible omething or nothing, which every man fahions according to his own fancy?—But is this factitious god of yours good by nature or malevolent? If he be naturally good, which you mut undoubt-