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i6z A TOUR THROUGH
Now, pray don't you think too, that
this personal kind of worship is much better
adapted to the capacities of the vulgar,
than the more pure and sublime modes of
it, which would only distradt and confound
their simple understandings, unaccustomed
to speculation; and that certainly require
something gross and material, some object
of sense to fix their attention ?—This even
seems to have been the opinion of some of
the sacred writers, who often represent God
under some material form.
Were you to attempt to give a country-
fellow an idea of the deity; were you to
tell him of a being that is immaterial, and
yet whose elsence penetrates all matter;
who has exisled from all eternity, and
whose extension is equally boundless with
his duration; who fills and pervades mil-
lions of worlds, and animates every object
they contain; and who, in the sublime
language of our poet,
« Tho'
Now, pray don't you think too, that
this personal kind of worship is much better
adapted to the capacities of the vulgar,
than the more pure and sublime modes of
it, which would only distradt and confound
their simple understandings, unaccustomed
to speculation; and that certainly require
something gross and material, some object
of sense to fix their attention ?—This even
seems to have been the opinion of some of
the sacred writers, who often represent God
under some material form.
Were you to attempt to give a country-
fellow an idea of the deity; were you to
tell him of a being that is immaterial, and
yet whose elsence penetrates all matter;
who has exisled from all eternity, and
whose extension is equally boundless with
his duration; who fills and pervades mil-
lions of worlds, and animates every object
they contain; and who, in the sublime
language of our poet,
« Tho'