Accidents > Life and most surprising adventures of Robinson Crusoe, of York, mariner, who lived eight and twenty years in an uninhabited island on the coast of America, near the mouth of the great river Oroonoque

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capacity, the reafon why our Saviour took not on him
the nature of angels, but rather the feed of Abraham ;
and how upon that account the fallen angels had no
benefit by the redemption ; and laftly, that he came
only to the loft fheep of the houfe of Ifrael, and the
like. God knows, I had more fincerity than know¬
ledge in all the ways I took for this poor Indian’s in-
ftnnftion ; and I muft acknowledge, that I believe
every body^that a<fts upon the fame principle will find,
that in laying heavenly truths open before him,
1 informed and inftrucfted myfelf, in many things, that
either I did not know, or had not perfectly contidered
of before ? But as Ifearched into them for the informa¬
tion of this poor favage, fo they naturally occurred to
my mind -, and my enquiry after many things was
more aftecftionate than ever I felt in my life : So that
however this poor creature might be improved by my
inftrmftion, certain it is, that upon this account I had
great reafon to blefs kind Providence for fending him
to me. His company allayed my grief, and made my
habitation more comfortable: And when I reflected
that this folitary life, to which I had been fo long con¬
fined, had not only moved me to look towards heaven,
but made methe inftrument,under Providence, to fave
the life, and for aught I knew, the foul of a poor fir-
vage, by bringing him to the knowledge of Jefus
Chrift; this caufed a fecret joy to fpread thro’ every
part of my foul, and I frequently rejoiced that ever I
was brought to this place, which I once thought to
be the moft miferable part of the world.
In this thankful frame of mind did I afterwards con¬
tinue while I abode on the ifland; and for three
years did my man and I live in the greateft enjoy¬
ment and happinefs, by our converfation one with
another. And indeed I believe the favage was as
good a Chriftian as I; and I hope we were equally
penitent 5 and fuch penitents that were comforted
and reftored by God’s Holy Spirit : For now we