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tre $ of I ^ kjdge because his a ^^ rfi ; f ^ % te tb # mind ? Became $ ie J ^) yaw ledge of ~ G oijU # n 4 4 be worship of him is ai > intellectual
gratification , and directs to tfae consideration of what elevates the mind and improves its faculties ? Qj was At so called because the Israelites had received their idolatrous knowledge and idolatrous habits from the Egyptians , a people amongst whom the arts and
sciences had been advanced to a very High state of perfection ; while | fcsy wei ^ inhtbe ve * y infancy of civilisation , and scarcely knew one ax | , or- one science ? To follow in the footsteps of ; So wise a people rajgh t have appeared to these babes
* u knowledge the strongest mark of wiwjom ; aud , of all their acquire-$ §§ #$ * # pne would be more Kfcely | 54 a % t ^^ 4 hep * han their knowledge ^^ thei r- worship of the fi ^ l ^ E ^ P ^ v ' - ¦ " . 7-: . ¦ ¦ ¦¦ • A £ TAfe i *^ ¦"¦ ! 0 f - knowledge was of
MfM 9 p 4 m t | p ^ fiiidst the garden * X ^ is is st rictly true of the sun , WfoS ^ fe HBiinaJjng and vivifying principlo ^ s Jku is placed in the Ippt . ^> f . th ^ w € Nrks ; Of Qod 9 and of all
r y | 4 . Ijbpe fust things impgsc its authority upon thinking i ^ ari to pay tp it his adoration , iavg ^ societies of human bei ngs h ^ ye ^ made it their G od : theCbalcteaus of old ^ and the Persians of
a » pjejnodorn times , have offered i wB ^^ 'P * ° ^ an < ^ to tk * . ^ Pfe ? 25 ?^ - . ' ¦ *¦ ¦ ¦ - ¦• ' ¦• ¦ - ' ^' ' . ** -: •¦ ¦ '¦ " - - ^^ " ¦ - ¦ > , ^§^ t # l ' nifaid the $ vine yoice f ^ g | the * Jay tjb ^ u eatest thereof t hou I ^ l ^ eu ^^ -And if ^ is ^ pologue if fpnsidexed in tlio light in which ^ ffce ^ t
^ Pm ^ r ^ r ^ t , ^ j fc . itiU scsem tiyfoi looses wa& desirous ^ in order to strengthen the influence o |^ his rt ^ mfe tfd $ * timi & i '* iik tae people , to announce to them
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thai , BTBoafest othw ^ Vfls wfiJdh htomf 6 iloT ^ ed in tbe tr ^ ef-Mdw h&iy $ tiiatgceatest :, tbat onpci ^ dohi ableciinw ? , vvas its havingdi ^ rdhed man of bia innocence , and lo ^ t him
hrs immortality . * " The instmment empJoyfed ^ t ^ effect the temptation \ vasr tBeTser . * pent . A more appropriate instro ^ ment could not have beda chosen , if we consider the sin wbi £ fcr Aclarrt
and Eve were tempted & > e&ihiMi to be ^ the sin of idolat ¥ j ^ - ? ' Thfe serpent was an embletri dtf Sivfi nity amongst the Egypiianfs > ttitfefc whose tutelage the Israelites h ^ d imbibed the ! r taste fot idolatry ^ of
and for wh ^ se mode r woir ^ lSip they were perpetualty longitig . ^ fH the ternples of Egyp % atMl ^ r # A culariy in that of Mem ^ b ^ H * ftJ | serpents ^ were always presef ^ ed ^ and a religious respect w ^ s | j tfl d to them . For what reason ^^^ i
not appear to be satisfactorily ex * plained to us ; but ^ tbt £ ISfel ^ blC ing clear , what better means C 6 fetd Moses have selected fb ^ * ternp # r of the primogeriitor ^ of but t ^^ It was through the rnedmni-of Eve that Adam w ^ s leanifet ^ s » ftFi
And it was through the inStrurnetr tality of wives " and c 6 n ^ &m « # , which had been taken fr 6 in : ^ h % heathen nations , that thel ^ feseHttft were most strongly tempted- 'to fift ^
latry . Every cafre \ va ^ th ^ r ^ folrfe taken to present their ifitefitmrfyi . ing , or in other ways allying therrf selves , with the women of jdoiA ^ trous nations : and the orders which
were given for the destruction 3 > f the Canaanittsh nation w ^ re »« € l Companied i by this Solid Te *« 6 ri ; lest by assooiatirtg Wth 4 fn ? lftf arid taking their wotaeh td ^ tej they should : be tempted ^ f ^ r ^ te ^ tffe wbrsh i p oi G ( fcl , an tfg ^ ftefct bdC ^ t ^ gods . The power of female witch .
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it O f tic Tqll tf M * n . , , 3 ^ 5
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), July 2, 1814, page 395, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2442/page/11/
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