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Title: Serious reflections during the life and surprising adventures of Robinson Crusoe : with his Vision of the angelick world
Year: 1720 (1720s)
Authors: Defoe, Daniel, 1661?-1731 Gent, Thomas, 1693-1778, supposed author Bibliotheca Tridentina, former owner
Subjects: Castaways Crusoe, Robinson (Fictitious character) Islands Survival after airplane accidents, shipwrecks, etc
Publisher: London : Printed for W. Taylor
Contributing Library: Boston Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Boston Public Library

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n, but muffthey come hither to prophane the Church withher, and m^ake the Qj-ieen an Idol ? And in a greatPalTion I was both at the People and at the Man-ner of the. Day, as you may eafily fee by whatfollows. N B. I had madefomeother fatyrical Refleclionsupon the Conduct of the Day; but as it lookstoo near home, I am not willing, that poor Ro-hinfon Qrujoe fliould difoblige any body. I confefs, the Clofe of the Day was flill morec\travag:int; for there the Thankfgiving was ad-journed from the Churcl^ to the Tavern, and to the C 1^7) the Street; and Inftcad of the Decency of a reli-gions Triumph, there was indeed a Trinmph otreligious indecency, and tlie Anthems 1e Denmand Thankfgivmg of the Day ended in the Drun-lienner<?, theBonehres, and the Squibs and Crac-Ivers ot the Street. How far Rchgion is concerned in all this, orwhether God Almighty will accept of this noifyDoings for Thankfcivings, that I have nochiiigto do with; let thofe People conird^r of it, that areconcerned in it.
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Of Dijfcrences in Religion. lis known alone to the Divine Wifdcm,i why he has beenpleafed to fufFer anyPart of Religion, and the Adorationpaid to hs ^vlajefly, the Supplicationsmade to him, and the Homage which his Crea-tures owe to his glorious Being, to be fo doubt-fully direded, or Yo difterently underdood by hisCreatures, as that there fnould be any Miflakes orDifagreements about them. How comes it to pafs, that the paying a Re-verence to the Name and Being of God, fnouldnot be as un^sapable of being difputed in the Man-ner of it, as in tlie thing irfelf ? That all the RulesofWorfliipping,Believing in, and Serving the GreatGod of Heaven and Earth, fhould be capable ofbeing underflood any more than oneWay? And thatthe Infallible Spirit of God, who is our Guide M 4 to ( 168) to Heaven, (hoiild leave any one of its Didatesin a State of being mifuncicritood ? Why have not the Rules of Religion, as wellthcfe ofDodrine as o( Lile, been laid down inTerms fo plain, and fo impoffible to be

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