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

The greatest Good that we can do for any, is to bring them unto the fullest Acquaintance with Christianity. Will Christianity allow him then to be, A Good Man, or, which is the same thing, A Christian, who refuses to do this Good, for the Servants that are under his influence? All genuine Christians are to be looked on as the Children of the Faithful Abraham, who is therefore called, The Father of the Faithful. Now of this our Father, did Heaven take it for granted; Gen. 18.19. I know him, that he will Command his Children, and his Household, and they shall keep the way of the Lord. He had some Hundreds of Servants belonging to his Household: He obtained, that the Slaves of his Household should Know the Way of the Lord; He, then Commanded, that they should Keep that ⟨p. 10⟩Way. Now, Christianity is, The Way of the Lord. Householder, There are Servants pertaining to thy Household. It is a mighty Power which thou hast over them; A Despotic Power which gives thee numberless Advantages, to call them, and lead them into the Way of the Lord. Art thou Regardless of bringing them into Christianity? Then thou doest not Walk in the Steps of our Father Abraham; and art not like to call him thy Father, any otherwise than the Rich Man in the place of Torment. We are very sure, That where the Spirit of Christianity has had its true operation, it has from the Beginning Shone forth in most Lively Essays, to diffuse the Light of the Glorious Gospel, unto such as have been Perishing for the Lack of that Vision. All Ecclesiastical History, down from the Book of, The Acts of the Apostles, to this Time, are filled with admirable Examples, of a Zeal flaming in the Hearts of Christians, to Christianize the rest of the World. Christianity, Whither art thou fled! Return, Return, O Beautiful Daughter of Heaven, Return, Return, that we may look upon thee. ⟨p. 11⟩What shall we then see, but a vast company of Christian Householders, filled with zealous contrivance and agony, to see their Houses become Christian Temples, and a glorious CHRIST worshipped and obeyed by all their Households! Yea, we read concerning some of the Primitive Christians, that with a Prodigy of Charity, they have bound themselves in the Quality of Servants, to Pagan Families, merely that they might be in a way to Christianize the Families; And their successes were Wonderful.