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    oirGod of destroying the inhabitants v ^ f tbe l « nii ooE Canaan , tecat ^ e th ^ y bad been grossly addkted loideiatry ; sosbookl other

    nations be employed , as the sin . struraents of the same vengeance , to root them out of the land—not by killing them with the sword , but byvxemovi 0 g them oat of their &Aeo * That this was the sin of which

    < & 4 f ( t * 9 . * 9 a $ guiUy is the more probable , because , as far as we can search into ihe , ear 4 iest history of mankind , we find they always have had ja disposition Jo worship the creatures $£ < jpod « - This worship began with

    the adoration of the heavenly bo-^ | f ^ ; alte r ward s it was Ghanged into t £ at of the other useful parts of the creation , or of those aniinah which , through a superstitiaii ^ apprehension , had caused a

    ^ pep impression to be made on the 44 ipd of man . That the first man . ruight fail into this sin we need no & $ &uraoce » When he beheld the beautiful works of God , resplenl ^ a ^ i ^ glpry , shining with a

    profu $ * $ n of light and of warmth by 4 ay > ancj with a milder but equally gQfh&nting lustre by night , captivated by their beauty , and awed by iheir influence , he would feel an involuntary impulse to fall down

    and adore them * They would appear to him the authors of all his enjoyments , and the source of all his expectations : and he would ascribe to them power , intelligence , i ^ nd goodness . Accordingly we find 1 hat at so early a period as

    that in which Tyre and its colonies were iu their affluence , a period p ^ jfyaps the moat remote lo which tjm heathen mythology carries us , 4 f , The slars < rf : $ m day and of * hc ni ^ lbt ^ er « adpwd under dif * it rent ewbiew ^ TJbe tun und er

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    the emblem of Hercules , the moon « ftli ^ . um * 8 &&k Wi&kf > ISat ^ f " 1 bullet eow . The first of tbtscvh * worshipped iind ^ r ihe name 8 ( Baalj the second uridet ^ that ^ Sf Astarte . These tv * d divimtfes vfei 4 the Apolte atnd the Diana of the Greeks , and th ^ Osiris and the lsis of the Egyptians , who designated

    the star of night by the figtrre of a cow . " Hence the origin of the golden calf , which th « brother of Moses made r wi th so ready a compliance , to gratify the congregation of Israel . ¦ " V

    It must be thought not a Nftle extraordinary that t \ o instructfom were given to the first human pail on the subject of the worship of an invisible first cause of all things :

    and yet none were given , unless we suppose the command respecting the forbidden fruit to have been that caution . For cert ^ ft nl y ^ udi a caution seems to have 1 > een

    necessary ; and no other appears to have been wanted in a state 90 perfectly temore& from temptatfon to moral vice , and ^^ ere ^ t ^ Wn almost impossible that a rational creature could havefallen into atty other sin . It was s ^ fcfd to ^ fttri ,

    " Of all the trees in We pitd € thou mayest freely 1 ca # ; ** Ycflfbli the dictate * of your |* ur <*^ rij ^ fc luted mind , and partake withbin reserve of the sweets orflfiS Ed ^ this land of delights - ^ Biii 6 f "W e tree of knowledge thou mayelt not eat of it . ^ It ivaisf pttctself the same command that was greed

    to the children of Israel on their admission into the land of Canaiin-They had an indulgence granted them u nrestrained c i n W ^ ty i ^ f » but in that of joining with the 6 id inhabitants ill the woTship of their ¦¦

    false god » * ^ -- ^ > ^ . --. ¦ ,- •• .. ; - May it dot bare betn called % fe

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    384 On the Tall of Man .

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), July 2, 1814, page 394, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2442/page/10/