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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
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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.
To quicken them unto the learning of the Catechism, it would be very well to propose unto the Negroes, Agreeable Recompenses, & Privileges, to be received and enjoyed by them, when they shall have made a good progress in it. Sirs, A Mahometan will do as much as this comes to, for any one that will embrace his Alcoran. Oh, Christians, will not you do more for your Generation, than the Children of this World for theirs. And it is to be desired, that the Negroes may not learn to say their Catechism only by rote, like Parrots; but that their Instructors, may put unto them such other Questions relating to the points of the Catechism, that be their Answers, (at least of YES, or NO,) it may be perceived, that they Know what they Say.
To quicken them unto the learning of the Catechism, it would be very well to propose unto the Negroes, Agreeable Recompences, & Priviledges, to be receiv'd and enjoy'd by them, when they shall have made a good progress in it. Syrs, A Mahometan will do as much as this comes to, for any one that will embrace his Alcoran. Oh, Christians, will not you do more for your Generation, than the Children of this World for theirs. And it is to be desired, that the Negroes may not learn to say their Catechism only by rote, like Parrots; but that their Instructors, may put unto them such other Questions relating to the points of the Catechism, that be their Answers, (at least of YES, or NO,) it may be perceived, that they Know what they Say.
But it will be also needful and useful, to uphold a more particular Conference often with the Negroes; and in conferring with them, to inculcate on them such Admonitions of Piety; as may have a special tendency to Form & Mould their Souls for the Kingdom of God.
Having told them, Who Made them, and Why He made them, and that they have Souls, which will be Wretched or Happy forever, according as they mind Religion; then tell them;