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Excerpt from Elements of Moral Science, Vol. 2 of 3
Even such parts of it as could never have been found out by human reason. And thus it is, that our natural notions of God and his providence are wonderfully refined and improved by what is revealed in holy writ: so that the meanest of our people, who has had a christian education, knows a great deal more on these subjects, than could ever be discovered by the wisest of the ancient philosophers. That many things in the divine government, and many particulars relat ing to the divine nature, as declared in scrip ture, should surpass our comprehension, is not to be wondered at; for we are daily puzzled with things more within our sphere: we know that our own soul and body are united, but of the manner of that union we know nothing. A past eternity we cannot comprehend; and a fu ture eternity is an object by which our reason is astonished and confounded: yet nothing can be more certain, than that one eternity is past and another to come.
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