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on which , in reading it ,. appeared to the present writer particularly striking . It is in the conversation which Crusoe has Avith
Friday concerning the devil , Friday ^ being informed by his roaster that God was stronger than tbe devil , asks , if God much stirongi much might as the devii ^ txfhy God not kill the devil , so make him no more wicked ? At
this question Crusoe was greatly surprised- and embarrassed ; but , kaving . recovered himself a little ^ he answered , that God would at last punish the devil severely ; that fee 4 s reserved for judgment , and is to be cast into the
bottomless pitj to dwell with everlasting fire . Still , however , Friday not feeing satisfied , returns upon his ttraster , repeating his words ; Keserve at l&st i Me no understands
but why not kill tht devil nvwy toot kill great ago ? c You may as well ask me , ' replied Crusoe , 4 why God ( Iocs not kill you and ine , when we do wicked things here that oftend him ; we are
pre-SjSfyed to repent and be pardoned . ' At this * F ' riday mused awhile , and then said , . mighty affectionately : Well * well , that well ; so youy Iy
devil , all wicked ^ all preserUe ^ repent , God \ pardon all . Perhaps % \ would be going too far to assert , that De Foe intended covertly to insinuate that there might be a more mercifuj distribution of
things , jn the final results of Di vine Providence than he darec } at tj ^ t time op . emy ^ o exln ^ tJ Biog .
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fornaable to itself , find containing repeated . admonitions . - . . . ....
This is th ^ direction of God . [^ will direct thereby whom he pleaseth ; and whomsoever Gq 4 shall cause to err , he shall have no director . Shall he therefore who shall be obliged to screen himself with his face from the se * verity of the punishment on the day of resurreciion * be as he wta
is secure therefrom ? And it shall be said unto the ungodly , Taste that which ye have desprved . Koran , { Sale's ) V . 11 . p . 323 ,
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No- CXU .
A Mourning Mother . The lady of a noble Venetian lost her orily son , and in
consequence becartfe a f > rey tothenfost excruciating sorrow . A iwcrend prelate , to console her * reminded
her among other things , how great must have bfrtrn the &ffit £ \\ on of Abraham , wh 6 , aeverthotess , without iriurrnuring , obeyed tfii commands of hea > ^ n , and was prepared ( o sacifficv fate beloved ^ his duly son ! Ah ! holy father ^ replied the lady , in all the poignant emphasis of grief ** -God WotiW never have exacted such b , sacrifice of a mother !
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Oct. 2, 1813, page 658, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2433/page/34/
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