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

But we were saying; the Condition of the Servants! This invites us to say, Thirdly: The condition of your Servants does loudly solicit your pains to Christianize them; and you cannot but hear the cry of it, if you have not put off all Christian Compassion, all Bowels of Humanity. When You see how laboriously, how obsequiously your Negros apply themselves, to serve you, to content ⟨p. 14⟩you, to enrich you, What? have you abandoned all principles of Gratitude, or of Generosity? A Generous Mind cannot but entertain such sentiments as these: Well, what shall I do, to make this poor creature happy? What shall I do, that this poor creature may have cause, to bless God forever, for falling into my Hands! The very First Thought which will arise in a Mind thus disposed, will form a Resolution, to get these poor Negroes well instructed in the things of their Everlasting Peace; It cannot be otherwise! The State of your Negroes in this World, must be low, and mean, and abject; a State of Servitude. No Great Things in this World, can be done for them. Something then, let there be done, towards their welfare in the World to Come. Even a Papist calls upon us; ['tis Acosta:] Barbaris pro libertate erepta fidem Jesu Christi, et vitam hominibus dignam reddamus. In the mean time, tis a most horrid and cursed Condition, wherein your Servants are languishing, until Christianity has made saving impressions upon them. A roaring Lion who goes about seeking whom he ⟨p. 15⟩may devour, hath made a secure of them: Very many of them do with Devilish Rites actually worship Devils, or maintain a magical conversation with Devils: And all of them are more Slaves to Satan than they are to You, until a Faith in the Son of God has made them Free indeed. Will you do nothing to pluck them out of the Jaws of Satan the Devourer? Especially since you may justly imagine them crying to you, in terms like those of the Child whom a Lion was running away withal; Help! Help! I am yet alive! O Souls deaf to the cry of Souls, Pity, Pity the Souls of your Negroes, which cry unto you, Have pity on us, O our Masters, have pity on us, whom the holy God, has justly delivered over into a woeful Slavery to the Powers of Darkness: And, Oh! do something, that the light of Salvation by the glorious Lord JESUS CHRIST may arrive unto us.

But we were saying; the Condition of the Servants! This invites us to say, Thirdly: The condition of your Servants does loudly sollicit your pains to Christianize them; and you cannot but hear the cry of it, if you have not put off all Christian Compassion, all Bowels of Humanity. When You see how laboriously, how obsequiously your Negros apply themselves, to serve you, to content