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320 own reaon, that I could ooner believe that the Deity paid no attention to the conduct of men, than that he punihed without the benevolent deign of reforming.

To uppoe only that an all-wie and powerful Being, as good as he is great, hould create a being foreeeing, that after fifty or ixty years of feverih exitence, it would be plunged into never ending woe—is blaphemy. On what will the worm feed that is never to die?—On folly, on ignorance, ay ye—I hould bluh indignantly at drawing the natural concluion, could I inert it, and wih to withdraw myelf from the wing of my God!—On uch a uppoition, I peak with reverence, he would be a conuming fire. We hould wih, though vainly, to fly from his preence when fear aborbed love, and darknes involved all his counels!

I know that many devout people boat of ubmitting to the Will of God blindly, as to an arbitrary ceptre or rod, on the ame principle as the Indians worhip the devil. In other words, like people in the common concerns of life, they do homage to power, and cringe under the foot that can cruh them. Rational religion, on the contrary, is a ubmiion to the will of a being o perfectly wie, that all he wills mut be directed by the proper motive—mut be reaonable.

And, if thus we repect God, can we give credit to the myterious ininuations, which inult his laws? can we believe, though it hould tare us in the face, that he would work a miracle to authorie confuion by anctioning an error? Yet we mut either allow thee impious concluions, or, &ensp;