Year: 1860

Now suppose that to give Negroes their
times, or let them go free here in this Coun-
try, was wrOng,-which do not believe would
be wrong, after they had served them some
time, but if it were wrong to let them 20 free,
whether or no those that see they did wrong
IN getting them, ought not to bear testimony
against it For their keeping them, and be.
ing silent, encourages others to get them.
For instance, the apostle Paul'S advice to the
Believers, not to join themselves in marriage,
a believer with an unbeliever, for he counting
1t wrong, even SO do |: But if a believer had
got a wife that was nm unbeliever do not
think that he should put her away, yet not
withstanding the Practice was wrong, and
ought to be spoken against. Now | can truly
say, that this practice OF making slaves of men
appears to be so great an evil TO me, that for
all the Riches aud Glory of this World, l
would not be guilty OF so great sin as this
seems to be- And | do believe that many
would see it so too, were they not blinded by
selfinterest. Now as | said in the beginning,
how apt men were to forget God in time of
Liberty, as we now seem to have, which if
rightly considered we ought the more to re-
member him, and to prize his favour therein.
For do believe that if persecution was on
foot again, and People were haled to Prisons,
as they have been in times past, that many
would have more regard to their own prac-
tices, than now they have. For this Practice
OF making slaves tends TO many evils as part
ing man and wife, and children from them
both, and thereby causing them to commit
adultery with others, and so their children
cannot come to honour them. And all this is
done by violence, which is forbidden in the
scriptures for there we are commanded to do
violence to no man. And lastly, it is a hin
derance to the spreading Of the Gospel among
those poor creatures, for which las well as
others) our Lord came and laid down his life,
and also has said, that his Gospel should be
preached unto all Nations. But some may
object, as l have heard them, that by this
means they come to hear the Gospel preached,
and they believe this was the way our Lord
intended that Nation should have the Gospel
preached to them, viz, to be brought slaves
here. To which I'll say, the reader may
quickly suppose what people these are, for it
must be them that buy the Gospel pretty dear
themselves, or else they could not think that
tile Negroes should be Bond slaves, and their
children after them, for the knowledge of the
Gospel. But | do not find that the Gospel
was either bought or sold for money ; nett er
do we find that ever God compelled any to re-
ceive it, but only entreated them or advised
them to choose life and live. Now by this
practice they hate the name of Il Christian
for all of us they can get (say they) they make
slaves Oll anu ChGll NdluIG lLbGll l6lIS lIlcll
that it is wrong,


Now | would have all seriously to consider,
that loves their own souls and does believe
that they must give an account for the Deeds
done i'll the body, to look into their own prac-
tlces, to see upon what Foundation they stand;
Tor God will not forgive what is i'll our power
to help.


Now l having shewn by Scripture the un-
lawfulness of this practice, as it is now in use,
both i'll the old Testament and in the new
and now, l would have all to turn their minds
inward, to that divine monitor or Counsellor,
placed in the heart of man, which is as agree
able to the scriptures q do beleve) as any in
ternal thing can be to an external one, to which
I'll leave my reader, even to that ever blessed
spirit "One toih the Father"


Nantucket, the 10Th of the 1Ith month, 1929,


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