How we cite our quotes: (Chapter.Paragraph)
Quote #1
Pamela owes everything that she is to be, as well as her being, to him; for, I think, she would not have brought me to this, nor made so great a Resistance, but for the good Lessons, and religious Education she imbib'd from him. (78.30)
Her, Mr. B basically shifts all the credit for Pamela's strength and piety away from her and gives it to her dad. What do you think of that? Was Pamela really just raised right, or should we give her a little more credit? (Remember that her brothers didn't turn out so well—they're the ones who got the family into major debt in the first place.)
Quote #2
Poor Mr. Williams, with Tears of Joy in his Eyes, said; How happily, Sir, have you been touched by the Divine Grace, before you have been hurried into the Commission of Sins, that the deepest Penitence could hardly have aton'd for!—God has enabled you to stop short of the Evil; and you have nothing to do, but to rejoice in the Good, which now will be doubly so, because you can receive it without the least inward Reproach. (78.40)
Mr. Williams doesn't give Mr. B or Pamela credit for his miraculous reform; rather, it's "Divine Grace" that has interceded and prevented him from further crimes. But wait: if none of the characters had anything to do with it, why did we just read this whole book?
Quote #3
You do well, said he, to remind me; that I owe all this to the Grace of God. I bless Him for it; and I thank this good Man for his excellent Lessons. I thank his dear Daughter for following them: And I hope, from her good Example, and your Friendship, Mr. Williams, in time, to be half as good as my Tutoress." (78.41)
Well, something's changed: Mr. B here seems almost humble, saying that he's going to rely on religious guidance from Mr. Williams and Pamela in order to adjust his behavior, and even then he doesn't necessarily think he will be "half as good" as Pamela when it's all over. This kind of change seems more like a miracle than real character development, but hey—we are talking religion.