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

A little divine Light and Grace infused into them, will be of great account. And the more Difficult it is, to fetch such forlorn things up out of the perdition whereinto they are fallen, the more Laudable is the undertaking: There will be the more of a Triumph, if we prosper in the undertaking. Let us encourage our selves from that word; Mat. 3.9. God is able of these Stones, to raise up Children unto Abraham.

Well; But if the Negroes are Christianized, they will be Baptised; and their Baptism will presently entitle them to ⟨p. 26⟩their Freedom; so our Money is thrown away.

[…], If this were true; that a Slave bought with thy Money, were by thy means brought unto the Things that accompany Salvation, and thou shouldest from this time have no more Service from him yet thy Money were not thrown away. That Mans Money will perish with him, who had rather the Souls in his Family should Perish, than that he should lose a little Money. And suppose it were so, that Baptism gave a legal Title to Freedom. Is there no guarding against this Inconvenience? You may by sufficient Indentures, keep off the things, which you reckon so Inconvenient. But it is all a Mistake. There is no such thing. What Law is it, that Son the Baptised Slave at Liberty? Not the Law of Christianity: that allows of Slavery; Only it wonderfully Dulcifies, and Mollifies, and Moderates the Circumstances of it. Christianity directs a Slave, upon his embracing the Law of the Redeemer, to satisfy himself, That he is the Lords Free-man▪ tho' he continues a Slave. It supposes, (Col 3.11.) That there are Bond as ⟨p. 27⟩