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judgments of God followed you, in the sheep, to punish you for a crime that you have committed, in a crime that you have not, and as I have tried my utmost to save you, and by that way brought it the harder against you, it is impossible now for me to save your life, as you are found guilty by both juries; therefore I shall thank you, as you must die, that you will confess what crime you have committed." The bloody wretch then confessed, he lived a servant in the house with the mistress, he was then married to; but as she had got a husband when he went there a servant, so to have the wife, whom he said he loved, he contrived, one morning, when his master arose to go to a fair, to rise early and go before him and meet him in a private place and murder him, which he did. He then went home to bed as if composed, and happy in the cruelty he had committed, and appeared easy and chearful before the wife. The night came, but no husband returned. She was alarmed; and he pretended equal alarm the same; but would not go alone in pursuit to find him. A miserable night was spent by the wife, and he appeared to share her sorrows, as an angel of light, A biblical reference to 2 Corinthians 11:14, describing how the devil disguises himself. though he was the devil himself. When the master was found murdered, he professed every agony with the wife; and by his false and pretended love gained her favour, and she afterwards married him. And at the time he was taken he was going to the same Fair that his master was going to when he murdered him; and at the very place that he killed his master and threw him in the ditch, the sheep that were in the field jumped over the hedge, and ran before him. So the innocent sheep brought the guilty wretch to the end he deserved. I feel, from this Parable, that the whole mysteries of the Bible will be brought to light, and the concealed Murderer be made known. But here my soul trembles, and all my bones shake! I see myself in the Woman's place; my dear Lord mur-