A good master well served. A brief discourse on the necessary properties & practices…

And will not the Scores of Slaves, the poor Blacks, now also in this Assembly, Give Earnest Heed, unto these words of God? Give Ear, ye pitied Blacks, Give Ear! It is allowed in the Scriptures, to the Gentiles, That they May keep Slaves; although the Law of Charity requires your Owners to Use you, as those that have Reasonable Souls within you. Yea, 'twould be against the Conscience of any Good man, to keep you for Slaves, if he find himself unable to use you according to that Law of Charity. But the most of you, have so little cause to desire you being my other man slaves as you are, & where you are that it would soon make you ⟨p. 53⟩miserable to be otherwise. You are better Fed & better Clothed, & better Managed by far, than you would be, if you were your Own men. All that now remains for you, is to become first the Good Servants of the Lord Jesus Christ, & then, of those that have purchased you. There was a Country of Swarthy People, of whom 'twas foretold in Psal. 68. 31. Ethiopia, [or, more truly, Arabia] shall soon stretch out her Hands unto God. Well then, poor Ethiopians, do you now Stretch out your Hands unto the Lord; even those poor Black Hands of yours, the Lord calleth for them. Lift those Hands of yours in Petitions to the Lord; Pray constantly, as well as you can, That the Lord would make you Servants unto Himself, and Pardon you, and Accept you, and Save you, through' Jesus Christ for ever. Set those Hands of yours to Engagements to the Lord; Vow solemnly as well as you can, That you will be the Servants of the Lord, by the Help of His Grace, as long as you Live. And be sure, that you never Stretch forth your Hands, unto any Evil; always Keep your Hand from doing any Evil; do not by Fornication, by […] by Stealing, by Lying, by Running away make your selves infinitely Black or than you are already. No, But put yourselves into the […] of the Lord Jesus Christ; he willing that the Lord Jesus Christ, should make you His Own. And then, for the sake of the Lord Jesus Christ be Good Servants, unto those that own you; Do for your Masters, and your ⟨p. 54⟩Mistresses, all the Service that you can; and be orderly in every thing.

And will not the Scores of Slaves, the poor Blacks, now also in this Assembly, Give Earnest Heed, unto these words of God? Give Ear, ye pittied Blacks, Give Ear! It is allowed in the Scriptures, to the Gentiles, That they May keep Slaves; although the Law of Charity requires your Owners to Use you, as those that have Reasonable Souls within you. Yea, 'twould be against the Conscience of any Good man, to keep you for Slaves, if he find himself unable to use you according to that Law of Charity. But the most of you, have so little cause to desire you being my other man slaves as you are, & where you are that it would soon make you