...lustrations, and bloody sacrifices, then composed the system of religious worship. In the words of the Poet, " Gods partial, changeful, passionate, unjust, Whose...attributes were rage, revenge, or lust ; Such as the icmls of cowards might conceive, And, form'd like tyrants, tyrants would believe."f Of the prayers...

...Thoughts on Comets. And yet Bacon has never been censured for it, nor numbered among Infidels. Warton. Zeal then, not charity, became the guide ; And hell was built on spite, and heav'n on pride. Then sacred seem'd th' ethereal vault no more ; Altars grew marble then, and reek'd...

...skies. Saw gods descend, and fiends infernal rise ; Here ftx'd the dreadful, there the West abodes ; 255 Fear made her devils, and weak hope her gods ; Gods partial, changeful, passionate, unjust, 4 Whose attributes were rage, revenge, or lust Such as the souls of cowards might conceive, And, form'd...

...ascribed unto them capricious attachments, and made them even fight for their respective fondlings. . " Gods partial, changeful, passionate, unjust, Whose attributes were rage, revenge, or lust." Pedaiah. I reject the notion of God's chusing persons, as persons, to eternal life from caprice; and...

...bursting skies, Saw gods descend, and fiends infernal rise ; Here fix'd the dreadful, there the bless'd abodes : Fear made her devils, and weak hope her gods...charity, became the guide, And hell was built on spite, aud heaven on pride : Then sacred seem'd the ethereal vault no more ; Altars grew marble then, and...

...bursting skies, Saw gods descend, and fiends infernal rise : Here .'KM the dreadful, there the bless'd abodes ; Fear made her devils, and weak hope her gods;...unjust, Whose attributes were rage, revenge, or lust : К 2 Such as the souls of cowards might conceive, And, form'd like tyrants, tyrants would believe....

...bursting skies, Saw gods deseend, and fiends infernal rise : Here fix'd the dreadful, there the blest me, That ne'er art eall'd, but when the dragon womb )f Stygian darkne ehangeful, passionate, unjust, Whose attributes were rage, revenge, or lust ; Sueh as the souls of...

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...bursting skies, Saw gods descend, and fiends infernal rise : Here fix'd the dreadful, there the blest abodes; Fear made her devils, and weak Hope her gods...Such as the souls of cowards might conceive, And, fonn'd like tyrants, tyrants would believe. Zeal, then, not chanty, became the guide ; And Hell was...

...rate. Conceding then that all old Divine conceptions and characters were based on Anthropomorphism — Gods partial, changeful, passionate, unjust, Whose...Such as the souls of cowards might conceive, And, formed like tyrants, tyrants would believe, — the question still recurs, Can you discover, interpret,...