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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A42949	The Negro's & Indians advocate, suing for their admission to the church, or, A persuasive to the instructing and baptizing of the Negro's and Indians in our plantations shewing that as the compliance therewith can prejudice no mans just interest, so the wilful neglecting and opposing of it, is no less than a manifest apostacy from the Christian faith : to which is added, a brief account of religion in Virginia / by Morgan Godwyn ...	Godwyn, Morgan, fl. 1685.	1680 (1680)	Wing G971; ESTC R21645	117,175	190

necessary for the Souls of Men. That so when our Lord shall come to require his Sheep calling unto us as Augustus is said to have done to Varus to restore the Souls committed to our Charge We may give our Account with Joy and not with Grief And that we now feeding the Flock of God and taking the oversight thereof not by constraint but willingly not for filthy Lucre but of a ready Mind may when the chief Shepherd shall appear receive a Crown of Glory which fadeth not away 2. And for the People I shall propose unto them three general Rules in this Affair to be guided by Whereof the first is To make the Negro's case our own as being the best way to judg what is fit for others And then to remember how unjust it would seem to one of us that our different White should deprive us of the least Advantage much more of the greatest which Religion is That Injunction of our Blessed Lord of dealing so with all Men as we should upon the like change of our Fortunes expect from them being a Principle highly Moral and Natural and sufficient to make us wave those proud distinctions which only avarice and a too worthy conceit of our selves have taught us 3. And to this I shall under the same Head add some few other Considerations of the same kind which may greatly add to our Security As 1. To reflect how dangerous Extremities are and that as nothing violent is lasting so nothing is more permanent than Moderation 2. To think how inconvenient this Distance and Difference between Man and Man Indians and Negro's English and both may in time prove The Poets advice Tros Tyriúsque mihi nullo discrimine agetur being much more conducive to our Happiness and Security 3. To meditate what fit Instruments for any State Revolution such miserable People are who being very numerous should not be too much Exasperated nor driven into Desperation 4. To reflect what a reproach and dishonour to the English Nation and Government our unchristian treating of these People is 5. Wisely to look rather to the most lasting then to the present Gain And in consequence thereof Not to labour so much for the Meat that perisheth c. St. John 6. Lastly To remember at whose Hands their Blood will be required if they perish and not think with Cain to shift the Guilt off by demanding Am I my Slaves keeper which certainly each of you are And therefore to be merciful to your own Souls if not to your Slaves He that taketh warning shall deliver his Soul Ezek. 33. But otherwise his Blood shall be upon his own Head 4. Secondly I shall beseech you to look unto the Generation of God's Children and to see what is done by others whether at Home or Abroad by our own Countrymen or by Strangers both in Europe and in their remoter Colonies and from thence to collect and imitate the best Examples As for our own Nation if we look into New-England they scruple not to admit either Negro's or Indians when capacitated and fit for it to their very Sacraments which very many of the English cannot obtain The Infants also of such are allowed Baptism And of the Bermudians I have Page 143 before spoken 5. Again if we appeal to our Mother-Country the respect there to them is notorious and even become the Scoff of this place 'T is true their Zeal is said of late to be much abated But this as 't is the Crime of some few whose great Wisdom consisteth only in getting of Money the grand Antichrist of our English Nation which in the very letter of the Text they exalt 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 above God and Religion So I doubt not but their Impiety will in time be better lookt into and a stop be put to its further growth at least there And those Mammonists be obliged to a more Christian deportment and compliance with the universal practice of all Believers especially of our English Nation till now 6. And as to Foraign Nations 't is certain that they treat their Negro's and others both here and in Europe as Men capacitated for the like hopes with themselves And in consequence of that belief do not only permit but compel them to partake with themselves in Religion Of whom some are daily promoted to the Priesthood and other Offices in the Church And I have here seen and discoursed with divers who were brought from those parts which besides some Reports of that nature which I had otherwise met with hath ascertained me of the truth thereof Now all these were they not better principled might urge the like Objections against their being made Christians which our selves do here But they are not yet arrived to that wisdom and fore-sight as to apprehend the Dangers and Inconveniencies of Religion 7. Thirdly I shall recommend unto them 1. A frequent view of the Terms by which only they can pretend a Right to God's Temporal Blessings He gave them the Lands of the Heathen saith David that they might observe his Statutes and keep his Laws So that obedience to God's Laws can only entitle Men to the good things that they here enjoy Which if referred to Christianity doth no question amongst other infer this Duty also 2. And then after a serious view of the Terms to see how others have fared upon the forfeiture St. Paul speaking of the Jews Rom. 9. hath these words Because of unbelief they were broken off and thou standest by Faith And in the Acts he bespeaks the same Jews to have thrust from them the Word of Eternal Life And in another place not only so but they are also charged with forbidding the Preaching of it to the Gentiles that they might be saved The crying Sin of these Colonies From which impudent despite done to Religion he ominates their speedy destruction and that Wrath which should and not long after did come upon them even to their utter Extermination 1 Thess 2. 16. And 3ly After all to apply this unto our selves If God spared not the Natural Branches how much less will he spare thee Be not therefore high-minded but fear for otherwise thou also shalt be broken off Nor is this the utmost of the danger but there is mentioned something further 2 Thess 1. The Lord Jesus shall be revealed from Heaven with his mighty Angels in flaming Fire taking vengeance of them that know not God and that obey not the Gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ who shall be punisht with everlasting destruction from the presence of the Lord and from the glory of his Power when he shall come to be admired in his Saints and to be glorified in all them that believe 8. But if none of all these Considerations will prevail the last thing I shall propose is That you will now at length remove that Vizard and undeceive the World who have been apt hitherto because going by that Name to believe you Christians Which Name with what face Men