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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that God by his providence would fend them a Bible for
both their injlruclions. dnd fuch was the early piety
of this new convert, that fhe made him prom fe never to
Jorfahe God any more, lejl, being made dead as floe cal¬
led it, (he jhoidd not only want her infruclor, but him-
felf be miferable in a long eternity.
Such furpriling account as this was, proved very
affecting to us both, but particularly to the young
clergyman, who was mightily concerned he could
not talk to her himfelf. Sir, faid he, there is fome-
thing more to be done to this woman than to marry
her : I mean that fhe ought to be baptized. To this
I prefently agreed : Pray, faid he again, afk her
hufband, whether he has ever talked to her of Jefus
Chrift, the falvation of finners, the nature of faith,
and redemption in and by him, of the Holy Spirit,
the refurre&ion, lafi: judgement, and a future ftate;
but the poor fellow melted into tears at this queftion,
faying, that he had -faid fometbing to her of thefe
things, but his inability to talk of them, made him
afraid left her knowledge of them fhould rather make
her contemn religion than be benefited by it: But that
if I would difeourfe with her, it would be very evi¬
dent my labour would not be in vain. Accordingly
I called her in, and placing myfelf as interpreter be¬
tween the religious prieft and the woman, I intreat-
ed him to go on : But furely never was fuch a fer¬
n-ion preached by any clergyman in thefe latter days,
with fo much zeal, knowledge, and fincerity ; in
fhort, he brought the woman to embrace the know¬
ledge of Chrift, and of redemption by him, with fo
furprifing a degree of underftanding, that fhe made
it her own requeft to be baptizM.
He then performed his office in the facrament of
baptifin, firft, by faying fome words over to himfelf
in Latin, and then afked me to give her a name, as
being her godfather, and pouring a whole difli full
of water upon the woman’s head, he faid, Mary, I
baptize