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To avoid all embarrassment, we are told, “that it is not necessary to know what God is; that we must adore him; that we are not permitted to extend our views to his attributes.” But, before we know that we must adore a God, must we not know certainly, that he exists? But, how can we assure ourselves, that he exists, if we never examine whether the various qualities, attributed to him, do really exist and agree in him? Indeed, to adore God, is to adore only the fictions of one’s own imagination, or rather, it is to adore nothing.