allen down and made a great noise--as to weapons, I took them all into
my side every night. But I needed none of all this precaution; for never
man had a more faithful, loving, sincere servant than Friday was to me:
without passions, sullenness, or designs, perfectly obliged and engaged;
his very affections were tied to me, like those of a child to a father;
and I daresay he would have sacrificed his life to save mine upon any
occasion whatsoever--the many testimonies he gave me of this put it out
of doubt, and soon convinced me that I needed to use no precautions for
my safety on his account.

This frequently gave me occasion to observe, and that with wonder, that
however it had pleased God in His providence, and in the government of
the works of His hands, to take from so great a part of the world of His
creatures the best uses to which their faculties and the powers of their
souls are adapted, yet that He has bestowed upon them the same powers,
the same reason, the same affections, the same sentiments of kindness and
obligation, the same passions and resentments of wrongs, the same sense
of gratitude, sincerity, fidelity, and all the capacities of doing good
and receiving good that He has given to us; and that when He pleases to
offer them occasions of exerting these, they are as ready, nay, more
ready, to apply them to the right uses for which they were bestowed than
we are. This made me very melancholy sometimes, in reflecting, as the
several occasions presented, how mean a use we make of all these, even
though we have these powers enlightened by the great lamp of instruction,
the Spirit of God, and by the knowledge of His word added to our
understanding; and why it has pleased God to hide the like saving
knowledge from so many millions of souls, who, if I might judge by this
poor savage, would make a much better use of it than we did. From hence
I sometimes was led too far, to invade the sovereignty of Providence,
and, as it were, arraign the justice of so arbitrary a disposition of
things, that should hide that sight from some, and reveal it to others,
and yet expect a like duty from both; but I shut it up, and checked my
thoughts with this conclusion: first, that we did not know by what light
and law these should be condemned; but that as God was necessarily, and
by the nature of His being, infinitely holy and just, so it could not be,
but if these creatures were all sentenced to absence from Himself, it was
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