part imaginable in labouring to preserve his fellow-creatures from

destruction, the devil, or some other evil spirit, one perhaps

cloathed in human flesh, was hard at work to make him completely

miserable in the ruin of his Sophia.

This therefore would seem an exception to the above rule, if indeed it

was a rule; but as we have in our voyage through life seen so many

other exceptions to it, we chuse to dispute the doctrine on which it

is founded, which we don't apprehend to be Christian, which we are

convinced is not true, and which is indeed destructive of one of the

noblest arguments that reason alone can furnish for the belief of

immortality.

But as the reader's curiosity (if he hath any) must be now awake, and

hungry, we shall provide to feed it as fast as we can.