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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.
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;
That by their sin against God, they are fallen into a dreadful condition.
Show them, That the Almighty God is Angry with them, and that, if they Die under the Anger of God, they will after Death, be cast among Devils; and that all the Stripes, and all the Wants, and all the sad things they ever suffered in this World, are nothing, to the many Sorrows, which they shall suffer among the Damned, in the Dungeon of Hell.
Show them, That the Almighty God is Angry with them, and that, if they Dy under the Anger of God, they will after Death, be cast among Devils; and that all the Stripes, and all the Wants, and all the sad things they ever suffered in this World, are nothing, to the many Sorrows, which they shall suffer among the Damned, in the Dungeon of Hell.