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GOD

Volume 10 · 85 words · 1842 Edition

one of the many names of the Supreme Being. God is also used in speaking of any false deity of the heathens. The Greeks and Latins, it is observable, did not mean by the name of god, an all-perfect being, of whose nature, eternity, infinity, omnipresence, and omnipotence, were essential attributes; amongst them, the word only implied an excellent and superior nature, and, accordingly, they gave the appellation of gods to all beings of a rank or class higher and more perfect than men, espe-