dainties, and relish celestial delights. The irreligious are fellow-commoners with beasts; the religious, with angels. Partly because religion is the end and excellency of the rational creature, of which brutes are wholly incapable. Brutes were made to serve God, men only to worship him. The Jewish Talmud propoundeth the question, Why God made man just on the evening before the Sabbath? and giveth this answer, That he might immediately enter upon the sanctification of the Sabbath, in the worship
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