Thoughts On Nature And Religion Or An Apology for the Right of Private Judgme
Thoughts On Nature And Religion Or An Apology for the Right of Private Judgme
Patrick Blair
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It is faid he begat him in his own likenefs, after his own image. Adam, originally initru&ed by the Almighty in his moral obligations, took more par- ticular care to inculcate thefe precepts into the mind of Seth, of which he found his other children de- [ 48 ; 3 deficient : and this fon is faid more particularly to have obeyed him, both in his own behaviour, and the precepts he delivered to his family. It may feem ftrange that mankind mould fo c^ickly apoftatife and forfake the worfhip of the ...true God, the invifible creator of all things ; and in his ftead to worfhip thefe vinble objects the fun, moon, and flars, while Adam, originally inftructed by God himfelf, remain- ed with them for above nine hundred years, and was certainly as willing, as able to inftrucl: his chil- dren in the proper object of worfhip. But it mud be obferved that this apoftacy began and prevailed only among the children of Cain, who had no op- portunity of being inflructed by Adam. Mankind were divided into two feels, called the Jons of God (thofe who kept with and followed the precepts of Adam, ) and the Jons of men, or the poflerity of Cain, who had no communication with the others.
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