A monitory, and hortatory letter, to those English, who debauch the Indians, by selling…

Can you now without some consternation Reflect upon the Scandal that you give? For a man to have the Blood of Souls to answer for; truly, 'tis a Tremendous Thing! Has that man himself any Interest in a CHRIST, or can he hope for it, who does what he can to keep others, Without Christ, and Without Hope? Did that man ever consent, that the Lord should Reign over himself, who does what he can, that the Lord may not Reign over others? Or will not the Lord in His just Vengeance Destroy those Enemies who thus would not have him to Reign? Is any one Sin yet pardoned unto that man, who does what he can, to keep others from seeking after the pardon of their Sin, and plunge them into more Sin? Is not that man yet under the formidable Wrath of God, who does what he can to keep others with that Wrath abiding on them, and from seeking to be delivered from the Wrath to come? Can that man ⟨p. 13⟩preserve his own Soul, from the Hands of Satan, who does what he can to betray the Souls of others into the Hands of the fierce Destroyer? Shall •e go to Heaven himself, who does what he can •o keep others out of Heaven? To make Indians Drunk, is to do all of This; & to Sell them Drink, as they are known to be disposed, is to make them Drunk. The Souls of these Drunken Indians, will go down into the place of Torment; but whither will they go, think ye, and how horribly shall they be Tormented, that have brought them thither? That there is indeed a place of Torment in (Hades or) the Invisible World, for Ungodly men, is a thing visible, even to the Natural Conscience of every man. We see Ill men unjustly inflict most intolerable Torments on Good men; and if there be a just God, as we are sure there is, Reason & Conscience will say, there are as insufferable Torments to be suffered by those Ill men, in another world. The Indians do by Drunkenness prepare themselves for a worse portion of those Torments, •han would otherwise have been Dispensed unto them from the infinite Vengeance of God: And you, by helping them to the Fuel of their Drunkenness, do but make your selves a Fuel •or those very Fires of the Divine Indignation in Hell, wherein They shall be ever making Satisfaction unto the Justice of Heaven. Will you then throw your selves into those Everlasting Torments, where the Roaring Indians being made your Companions, will upbraid you. 'Tis you English men, that have brought us hither!