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Theopolis Americana. An essay on the golden street of the holy city: publishing, a…
Theopolis Americana. An essay on the golden street of the holy city: publishing, a testimony against the corruptions of the market-place. With some good hopes of better things to be yet seen in the American world. In a sermon, to the General Assembly of the Massachusett-Province in New-England. 3 d. 9 m. 1709. : [Five lines of quotation in Latin]
Boston: printed by B. Green, 1710
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 go as Pirates, and Catch up poor Negroes, or People of another Land, that have never forfeited Life, or Liberty, and to make them Slaves, ⟨p. 22⟩and Sell them, is One of the worst kinds of Thievery in the World; and such Persons are to be taken for the common Enemies of Mankind; and they that buy them, and use them as Beasts, for their mere Commodity, and betray, or destroy, or neglect their Souls, are fitter to be called, Incarnate Devils, than Christians, tho' they be no Christians whom they so Abuse.
To go as Pirates, and Catch up poor N•groes, or People of another Land, that have never forfeited Life, or Liberty, and to make them Slaves, ⟨p. 22⟩and Sell them, is One of the worst kinds of Thievery in the World; and such Persons are to be taken for the common Enemies of Mankind; and they that buy them, and use them as Beasts, for their meer Commodity, and betray, or destroy, or •eglect their Souls, are fitter to be called, Incarnate Devils, than Christians, tho' they be no Christians whom they so Abuse.
I will go on to say; When we have Slaves in our Houses, we are to treat them with Humanity; we are so to treat them that their Slavery may really be their Happiness; Yea, in our treating of them, there must be nothing but wh•t the Law of CHRIST will Justify. Above all, we are to do all we can •o Christianize the•. I will again give you the Words of my Honoured BAXTER.