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    walked to meet hh people ; but the idolaters were not to be found there . They had forsaken his worship , and he sought them in the sphere of their duly in vain . The

    conversation which took place between Jehovah , and his intelligent creature , and the means Adam made use of to conceal his shame , strongly mark the conduct of the

    Almighty to that rebellious nation , and the paltry excuses they were driven to for their ungrateful dereliction of duty . Compare with it the state of destitution and of

    nakedness to which the Israelites were reduced in ( heir captivity . Despoiled of their wealth , their dignity and their comfort , poor in * deed and naked were they ; and they had no means of remedying the evil of their condition but by

    the assistance of him whom they had offended * Their own ingenuity a # d power furnished them but a poor relief ; they found a portion of comfort ^ and a diminution of their disgrace , in the cheering proniises which his prophets made known .

    If I were disposed to look into the third chapter of Genesis for a prophecy of theRedeemer , although I should consider that promise to

    have been made to the congregation of Israel by the mouth of Moses , the hypothesis which 1 have attempted to lay down would furnish me with one of the clearest

    which the scripture contains , and one which was literally accomplished . " The . seed of the woman shall bruise thy head . ' * For it is ^ p rtby of remark that , soon after

    tlieadveutof the Messiah , the ido . Ja ; rouK worship of the Egyptians cwiieljr ; ceased . The Christian religioji spread through Asia , and a great part oi Ail ica , oiid the wor-

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    ship of JeWva-h succeeded that ^ of the serpent * Nor has this ever been revived . Its head was so bruised by the seed of the woman as never to recover from its wound . The religion of Mahomet now prevails in Egypt ; the great leading principle of which is the grand truth of Mosaic and of Christian inspiration the proper unity of God . ¦ . \

    Does not this account of the fall of man give a dignity and a value to the whole Mosaic history , which it is destitute of on the commonly received hypothesis ? And does it not convince us that Moses was

    not employed either in ^ an idle speculation , or in reporting a . cottifused tradition , when he thus described the fall of man from a state of innocence and of happiness , and attributed it to an

    offence which a jealous God * v i # never pardon , but will visit with the heaviest judgments ? Let Chris * tians remember this ; and let them preserve the worship of that one

    God free from every defilemon t and without a stain . And , although they are not in danger of worship s * ping a dragon , a serpent , or a calf , let them equally withhold their reverential regards from ever ^ creature that he has made . We

    conceive the Catholics to be guilty of idolatry in offering up their prayers to the mother of Jesus , to Jesus himself , and to the saints . For these also are acts of idolatry . Lest we should err in this

    solemn matter , let us pay our vows to God alone , under the name of Jehovah , the creator of ourselves and the creator of J < su ^ his be * loved son , the father of him add the father of us all * .. * . < ¦ ¦ . •;• - ¦¦ J . W .

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), July 2, 1814, page 397, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2442/page/13/