expreſs Judgment againſt it. But to repreſent the Almighty as avenging the Sins of the Guilty on the Innocent, was indecent, if not blaſphemous, as it was to repreſent him acting againſt the firſt Principles of natural Juſtice, and againſt the original Notions of Right and Wrong, which he himſelf had implanted in our Minds; by which we were to judge not only in all Matters which were not revealed, but even of the Truth of Revelation itſelf. He ſaid, he knew many held the ſame Principles with the Captain on this Head; but he was himſelf firmly convinced to the contrary, and would provide in the ſame Manner for this poor Infant, as if a legitimate Child had had the Fortune to have been found in the ſame Place.’
While the Captain was taking all Opportunities to preſs theſe and ſuch like Arguments to remove the little Foundling from Mr. Allworthy’s, of whoſe Fondneſs for him he began to be jealous, Mrs. Deborah had made a Diſcovery, which in its Event threatned at leaſt to prove more fatal to poor Tommy, than all the Reaſonings of the Captain.
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