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Rh Do you acknowledge that the power of looking into futurity, and eeing things that are not, as if they were, is an attribute of the Creator? And hould he, by an impreion on the minds of his creatures, think fit to impart to them ome event hid in the hades of time yet unborn, to whom would the ecret be revealed by immediate inpiration? The opinion of ages will anwer this quetion—to reverend old men, to people ditinguihed for eminent piety.

The oracles of old were thus delivered by priets dedicated to the ervice of the God who was uppoed to inpire them. The glare of worldly pomp which urrounded thee impotors, and the repect paid to them by artful politicians, who knew how to avail themelves of this ueful engine to bend the necks of the trong under the dominion of the cunning, pread a acred myterious veil of anctity over their lies and abominations. Impreed by uch olemn devotional parade, a Greek, or Roman lady might be excued, if he enquired of the oracle, when he was anxious to pry into futurity, or enquire about ome dubious event: and her enquiries, however contrary to reaon, could not be reckoned impious.—But, can the profeors of Chritianity ward off that imputation? Can a Chritian uppoe that the favourites of the mot High, the highly favoured, would be obliged to lurk in diguie, and practie the mot dihonet tricks to cheat illy women out of the money—which the poor cry for in vain?

Say not that uch quetions are an inult to common ene—for it is your own conduct, O ye foolih&ensp;