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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.
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.
So use them, as to preserve Christs Right and Interest in them. Those that keep their Negro's and Slaves, from Hearing of Gods Word, and from becoming Christians, because, they shall then lose part of their Service, do openly profess Rebellion against ⟨p. 23⟩God, and contempt of Christ the Redeemer of Souls, and a contempt of the Souls of Men, and indeed, they declare, that their Worldly profit, is their Treasure and their God.
So use them, as to preserve Christs Right and Interes• in them. Those that k•ep their Negro's and Slaves, from Hearing of Gods Word, and from becoming Christians, because, they shall then lose part of their Service, do openly profess Rebellion against ⟨p. 23⟩God, and contempt of Christ the Redeemer of Souls, and a contempt of the Souls of Men, and indeed, they declare, that their Worldly profit, is their Treasure and their God.
Fidelity to the cause of Righteousness, obliges me, to take Notice of One thing more.