The Negro Christianized An essay to excite and assist the good work, the instruction…

To deal yet more plainly with you; Secondly; With what Face can you call your selves Christians, if you do nothing that your Servants also may become Christians? A Face that has been Baptized into the Name of the One GOD, in Three Persons, may Blush to continue unconcerned, Whether the Name of that God, be ever Known or no, in the very Families that belong unto them. Are they Worthy to be counted Christians, who are content tho' a part of their Families remain Heathen, who do not know God, nor call upon His Name? We read, 1 Tim. 5.8. If any provide not for his own, and especially those of his own house, he has denied the Faith, and is worse than an Infidel. And what is he, who does Provide nothing for the Souls of those whom God has made his own; that their Souls may be fed with the Bread of Life, and clothed with the Garments of Righteousness, and Healed of the Deadly Wounds which their Fall from God has brought upon them! What is he, who is willing that those of his own House remain Strangers to the Faith, and Wretched ⟨p. 8⟩Infidels? Householder, Call thy self any thing but a Christian? As for that Worthy Name, — Nomen Depone, Do not pretend unto it; Thou art not Worthy of it. If thou wilt Name the Name of CHRIST, in denominating thy self a Christian, then Depart from this Iniquity, of leaving thy Servants, to continue the Servants of Iniquity. It will be found a Maxim that Fails not; That no man can Really and Heartily be of any Religion, without some Desire to have that Religion Propagated. For a man to Profess a Religion, and care not a Straw, Whether any body besides himself be of it; certainly, That mans Profession is not worth a Straw; it can be no Sincere Profession. It is Natural for men, to promote their own Religion. Shall Christians fall short of Mahometans, or of Idolaters? The Pagan Japonians, were too much in the right out, when they concluded a certain Worldly Generation of Europeans, to be no Christians; Because they declined the doing of any thing for the Propagation of Christianity. The Christians who have no concern upon their ⟨p. 9⟩Minds to have Christianity Propagated, never can justify themselves. They say they are Christians, but they are not; What they are, we know not. All along the Pagans themselves, have made it the main Stroke in the Definition of, A Good Man; He is One who does all the Good that he can.