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RELIGIOUS INSTRUCTIONS
FOUNDED ON SACRED AUTHORITIES.
The following Treatise, in the form of questions
and answers, contains a brief account of the worship
enjoined in the sacred writings, as due to that Being
who is pure as well as eternal, and to whose existence
Nature gives testimony; that the faithful may easily
understand and become successful in the practice of this
worship. The proof of each doctrine may be found,
according to the figures, in the end of the work.
As this subject is almost always expounded, in the
sacred writings, by means of qu estions and answers, that
it may be more easily comprehended, a similar plan is
adopted in this place also.
1 Question.—What is meant by worship ?
Ansiver.— -Worship implies the act of one with a
view to please another ; but when applied to the Su-
preme Being, it signifies a contemplation of his attri-
butes.
2 Q.—To whom is worship due ?
A.—To the Author and Governor of the universe,,
which is incomprehensibly formed, and filled with an
endless variety of men and things ; in which, as shown
by the zodiac, in a manner far more wonderful than
the machinary of a watch, the sun, the moon, the planets-
and the stars perform their rapid courses ; and which is
fraught with animate and inanimate matter of various
FOUNDED ON SACRED AUTHORITIES.
The following Treatise, in the form of questions
and answers, contains a brief account of the worship
enjoined in the sacred writings, as due to that Being
who is pure as well as eternal, and to whose existence
Nature gives testimony; that the faithful may easily
understand and become successful in the practice of this
worship. The proof of each doctrine may be found,
according to the figures, in the end of the work.
As this subject is almost always expounded, in the
sacred writings, by means of qu estions and answers, that
it may be more easily comprehended, a similar plan is
adopted in this place also.
1 Question.—What is meant by worship ?
Ansiver.— -Worship implies the act of one with a
view to please another ; but when applied to the Su-
preme Being, it signifies a contemplation of his attri-
butes.
2 Q.—To whom is worship due ?
A.—To the Author and Governor of the universe,,
which is incomprehensibly formed, and filled with an
endless variety of men and things ; in which, as shown
by the zodiac, in a manner far more wonderful than
the machinary of a watch, the sun, the moon, the planets-
and the stars perform their rapid courses ; and which is
fraught with animate and inanimate matter of various