. The Columbian magazine : or, monthly miscellany. much improved by the li-terature of the Eg^-ptians, Greciansand Pvomans, ftill numbers of theirwifeft men broached and propagat-ed the groiTeil abfurdities concern-ing a deity, and the lirft caufe ofall fenhble objecis, celeilial and ter-rellrial; but iorne few, arguing fromeffects to cauffcs, concluded, as aD-pears from Ciceros Natura Dto-rum, &c. that all material beings,as v>ell as the rational faculties ofthe foul, mull have originated with,and be prefcrved by an uncreated,immaterial and omnipotent free a-gent, tho they improperly confi


. The Columbian magazine : or, monthly miscellany. much improved by the li-terature of the Eg^-ptians, Greciansand Pvomans, ftill numbers of theirwifeft men broached and propagat-ed the groiTeil abfurdities concern-ing a deity, and the lirft caufe ofall fenhble objecis, celeilial and ter-rellrial; but iorne few, arguing fromeffects to cauffcs, concluded, as aD-pears from Ciceros Natura Dto-rum, &c. that all material beings,as v>ell as the rational faculties ofthe foul, mull have originated with,and be prefcrved by an uncreated,immaterial and omnipotent free a-gent, tho they improperly confinedthe interpofition of providence, andreilritted it to thoie things whichare of confequence in the eyes ofman ; rna^na Dei curant^ parva 7ie~gligunt, Cic. de Nat. Deor. as if allthings were not equally valuable, oi:lDr/:,<^. \%/,;..■ jC,^/. //^,// ^/:7/ i/^/^ C ^rrr^r,.,,^ x^5. t=&f-=Br-af .^3r^-^-=-Fr=?-^^;^fwai^gi^^^^^^Sg^S^


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