"But when it is such a truth, as I do not only hear, but feel; and it comes home to my own very sense and experience: shall any sophistical reasonings wrangle me out of it; what though I cannot resolve the question, [GREEK CHARACTERS] whence the evil was derived: whether from the soul formed in the body; [end page 211] or lighted as a candle  from the souls of the parents: when the thing itself is evident; shall I deny it; because I cannot account how it came to pass?"
Meditations, with Short Prayers Annexed
Jenks, Benjamin. <u>Meditations, with short prayers annexed</u>. The second edition Vol. 1. London, 1757. 2 vols. Based on information from English Short Title Catalogue. Eighteenth Century Collections Online. Gale Group.<BR>http://galenet.galegroup.com/servlet/ECCO