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The Negro Christianized An essay to excite and assist the good work, the instruction…
The Negro Christianized An essay to excite and assist the good work, the instruction of Negro-servants in Christianity. : [Four lines of Scripture texts]
Boston: printed by B. Green, 1706
Title page typeset from the transcription.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
III. WHY should not the Negroes be taught, The Creed? In that which goes under the Name of, The Apostles Creed, there are several Articles, which were Successively introduced in Later Ages. The Articles more unquestionably derived from the Apostles, made a Shorter Collection. Here you have it for them.
I Believe in God the Father, the Almighty. And in Jesus Christ, His only Son, our Lord. I Believe in the Holy Spirit; The Resurrection of the Body: And Life Everlasting. Amen.
IV. Sometimes Negro-Children, are cast into our Families. If a Christian Master or Mistress, will with all due Solemnity, Engage to bring up those Children in Christianity, and to do their best that they shall be the Servants of JESUS CHRIST, We will say, Can any Man forbid Water, that these should not be Baptised, who have been Devoted ⟨p. 45⟩unto the Service of the Glorious Lord, by those who have the Disposal of them? Consider, Gen. 17.13.
IV. SOmetimes Negro-Children, are cast into our Families. If a Christian Master or Mistress, will with all due Solemnity, Engage to bring up those Children in Christianity, and to do their best that they shall be the Servants of JESUS CHRIST, We will say, Can any Man forbid Water, that these should not be Baptised, who have been Devoted ⟨p. 45⟩unto the Service of the Glorious Lord, by those who have the Disposal of them? Consider,