In the relating what is already past of my story, this will be the more easily believed when I shall add, that through all the variety of miseries that had to this day befallen me, I never had so much as one thought of it being the hand of God, or that it was a just punishment for my sin—my rebellious behaviour against my father—or my present sins, which were great—or so much as a punishment for the general course of my wicked life.
Esto se entenderá mejor cuando cuente la parte pasada de mi historia y agregue que, a pesar de todas las desgracias que me habían ocurrido hasta ese día, no se me había ocurrido pensar que eran a consecuencia de la intervención divina, o que se trataba de un castigo por mis pecados, por la rebeldía contra mi padre, por mis pecados actuales que eran muy grandes o, bien, un castigo por el curso general de mi depravada vida.