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POSTSCRIPT.
the existence of the Supreme Being, or any of his attributes.
That when we speak of Power, as an attribute of any being, God himself not excepted, we use words without meaning.
That we can form no idea of power, nor of any being endued with power, much less of one endued with infinite power; and that we can never have reason to believe, that any object, or quality of any object exists, of which we cannot form an idea[1].
- ↑ The poor prodigal Gentile, in the parable, was hardly reduced to feed upon such husks as these. How good and how joyful
