DId their sins or not led God to the decision to deprive the Indians from His knowledge?
Robinso Crusoe: "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 ON ACCOUNT OF SINNING AGAINST THAT LIGHT WHICH, as the Scripture says, was a law to themselves, and by such rules as their consciences would acknowledge to be just, though the foundation was not discovered to us;
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What a convoluted sentence.
Basically, Robinson concludes that the natives had sinned against God, but he can't say exactly how. Don't you love such logic? :)
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