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Excerpt from A Comprehensive View of the Leading and Most Important Principles of Natural and Revealed Religion: Digested in Such Order as to Present to the Pious and Reflecting Mind, a Basis for the Superstructure of the Entire System of the Doctrines of the Gospel
A native, which perhaps may be justly deemed an instinctive sentiment of Deity, or of that universal power which presides over all things, occupies and takes deep possession of the human heart, in the earliest periods of society and the most uncultivated states of human existence. Home has originated that multitude of objects which called forth the respect or veneration, or amused the fancy of mankind in the heathen world; and that vast assemblage of supernatural orfantastic beings, which peopled the groves and the forests, the hills and the fountains of antiquity. Men, unable to grasp the grand comprehensive idea of the Supreme Being, who fills the universe with his presence, yet conscious of God in every place, invested all the interesting objects of nature with 'butes ot' divinity. And every situation which tended to fill the mind, ed 'one Md.
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