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more palpable. they believed in many Gods; and in "Gods passionate & unjust." Ignorant of the nature of religious worship; they endeavored to honor their deities, by the crimes which pleased themselves. Unable to comprehend the mystery of a divine moral government, they became fatalists. Captives, Servants, and even their own Children, they sacrificed to Devils. Their systems of morality were without adequate motives; and philosophy could not supply that which was wanting. It had done what it could; but where it flourished most, there morals were most abandoned. Some entertained the hope of a future state, but by most of them it was considered a fable. Their religions, of which virtue formed no part, were of a highly demoralizing character; and the multitude, if not their Philosophers, were involved in the grossest licentiousness. (((They were "full of envy, murder, debate, deceit, malignity; they were haters of God, covenant breakers, without natural affection,)))

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