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

A SOUL, Ignorant of God and His Christ, and vicious in all the affections of it, and that neither knows nor likes the Things that are Holy and Just and Good, and that has no illuminations from Heaven ever visiting of it, ⟨p. 16⟩but is in Great Folly wandering down to the Congregation of the Dead; Such a Soul is a terrible fight! It can be no other than such a Soul, who does not count it so. Neighbours, you have such a fight, in all your Negroes, as long as they are left a People of no understanding. The uninstructed Negroes about your houses, appear like so many Ghosts and Spectres, You may, without being Fanciful, imagine that like so many Murdered Ghosts, they look very Ghastly upon you, and summon you to answer before the Tribunal of God, for suffering them to perish in their miserable Circumstances. Most certainly, Sirs; The Blood of the Souls of your poor Negroes, lies upon you, and the guilt of their Barbarous Impieties, and superstitions, and their neglect of God and their Souls: If you are willing to […] nothing done towards the Salvation of their Souls. We read of, People destroyed for lack of knowledge. If you withhold Knowledge from your Black People, they will be Destroyed. But their Destruction must very much lie at Your doors; You must answer for it. It was a […] ⟨p. 17⟩charge of old brought in against the Jewish Nation; Jer. 2•.34. In thy skirts is found the Blood of Souls. It were to be wished, that in the Skirts, the out-borders, the Colonies and Plantations of the English Nation, there might be no room for such a charge. But surely, Things look very Black upon us▪ You have your selves renounced Christianity, if you do not receive that Faithful saying of it, and most Awful one: Every one of us shall give account of himself to God. But then Remember, that one Article of your Account will be this: You bad poor. Negroes under you, and you expected and exacted Revenues of profit from them. Did you do any thing to save them from their Blindness and Baseness, and that the Great GOD might have Revenues of glory from them. Alas, if you have not thought and cared and Watched for the Souls of your Negroes, as they that must give an Account, You will give up your Account with Grief, and not with Jac; very Grievous will be the consequences. A Prophet of God, might without putting any Disguise upon the matter, thus represent it;