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of the Deity 3 his soul is doomed to remain mid-way 

 between heaven and earth ; yet God will destroy 

 the snake : but, if it acted by Divine orders, Pro- 

 vidence spares it. Should a rich man call the poor, 

 with promises of giving them alms, and not perform 

 them, and should the poor exhort God to make him 

 poor too, for his uncharitable deceit, Providence 

 will either punish him in this way, or some other ; 

 but by penance and prayer he may be pardoned. 

 As a man marries a woman at a great expence, 

 should she be guilty of infidelity, and conceal the 

 sin she had committed, which is the greatest aggra- 

 vation of it, God will be incensed and punish her, 

 by making her sick, lame, or blind. Whoever 

 commits fornication and conceals it, may dread di- 

 vine vengeance. To avert falling sick, or being other- 

 wise punished for his crime, he must avow it, pray to 

 be forgiven, and sacrifice a goat at Dewarry Nad, the 

 shrine of their household God, die blood of which 

 is to be sprinkled over the linen, to purify him. If 

 a man casts a lustful eye on his neighbour's wife, 

 God will punish him; for it is forbidden. Who- 

 ever takes poison and dies, can never go to Hea- 

 ven , his soul will be doomed to wander eternally $ 

 he will be convulsed and vomit, with no more than 

 the daily allowance of as much rice as can be put on 

 an <7wra-lcaf (which is smaller than the iamarhiJ- 

 leaf) and as much water, Whoever hangs him- 

 self, shall never appear in the presence of God ; his 

 soul will have no place assigned it ; but he will be 

 doomed to wander eternally with a rope about his 



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