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The people in Africa have Laboured
under the Dreadfull Calamity
Of Civill War Many Years. Christians as they
call themselves Coveting
Their Children for Slaves occasion it. The Same
Measure Wee Meet is Now
Measuring to us again. How many Weeping Mothers think
you is there
Continually in Africa Having their Dear Children torn from
them
By Hostile Means and Theft never to See them More Either to help
Or
Comfort them. Their Husbands are frequently killed in Battle by
In-
Deavouring to Save their Children. The Poor Captive Children are all
Enslaved
The Most of them Used With Cruelty and Kept in Barbarous
Ignorance
Till Death puts an End to their Miserable life. The British
Parliament
And Our Clergy Except a Very Few, Are like the Priest and levite
Devoid
Of Pity. And Our Churches With their Overseers are Partiall and
Hipo-
Criticall for if a Young Woman, A Member, happens to Have a Child by
A
Man that Promises Her Marriage And Runs Away, She Must Stand up
Like a
Malefacter Before the Church And Cry Peccavi or be Excommunica-
Ted. But if,
A Thound Gentlemen and Ladys Enslave their fellow Creature
Not Suffering them
to Enjoy Either liberty or Property, they are not so
Much as Reproved. Here
is Straining at a Gnat and Swallowing a Camell
With a Witness. Great Brittain
is in a Ruined State by Reason of Debt,
Owing Very Much to Carelesness in
Electors of Members for Parliament for
Sixty Years Past, in Chusing Such Men
as Were for Hiring Money, time after
Time in Great Sums, One upon the Back of
Another, in the Same time Wasting
A Great Part of the Publick Stock in
Exorbitant Sallerys and Unnecessary
Petisions together with Many Other
Misapplications and Superfluities.
Americans Had no Hand in this Chusing and
Waste! Is it any Wonder that
They Are Unwilling to Subject themselves to Such
Managers in all cases what-
Soever. They take Notice that the Sallerys of
American Crown Officers has
Been Greatly Enhanced of late instead of being
lessoned. The Receivers of
Exorbitances are as Bad as the Givers, Both open
Violaters of the Eighth Comman-
Dment. I Can't Perceive that Episcopates Ever
Rebuke Such Men Publickly, or
Forbid them the Eucharist but if an Infant died
unbaptized their Zeal
Wont Suffer Them to Read the burial Service over it.
Here is More Strain-
Ing at a Gnat and Swallowing a Camell.
Americans also
are Very Corrupt by Indulging themselves in Pride & Luxury
In Meats,
Drinks, Apparell, Houses, Furniture &c. The Colonys and
Brittains are
both Very unfit, So Much as to Reprove One Another, because
They have Such
Great Beams in their Own Eyes. The Colonys Are in Debt
as well as Brittains
if wee were but all Willing to live as the Gosple Teaches
All Publick Debts
May be Discharged in a few Years.
One or Two Millions A Year
May be Saved if Men would Make More Use of their
Legs, Instead of Keeping So
Many Horses. Many Gentlemen And Ladys are Some-
Thing like Woden Gods, that
have feet but Walk not.
One or Two Million More May be Saved if
Our Women Wore Such Shoes as
Are Most Comfortable, As Well as most
Profitable, Instead of Wearing Stilts that
Their feet May look Smaller then
God has Made them, to be Seen of Men
One or Two Million More
May be Saved in Candles if People Would Goe to bed
At Dusk in long Days and
Rise before the Sun the Year Round. Its nothing but
Laziness and Carelesness
that Hinders it
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