31.0 UNIVERSAL OBLIGATION including in their system thepeculiarities, the duties, the devotions of Christianity. These are decorous men of the world, who, assuming the character of philoso- phical liberality, value themselves on having shaken off the shackles of preju- dice, superstition, and system. They acknowledge a Creator of the universe, but it is in a vague and general way. They worship a Being, " whose temple is all space ;" that is, every where but in the human heart. They put Him as far as possible from themselves. Believ- ing that He has no providental care of them, .they feel no personal interest in Him. God and nature are with them synonymous terms. That the creation of the world was His work, they do not go the length of denying ; but that its go- vernment is in His hands, is with them very problematical. In any case, however, they are assured that a Being of such immensity requires not the littleness of superstitious forms, northe petty limitations of stated seasons,
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