A Choice Drop of Seraphick Love Tender'd to the Immortal Soul

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1734. Excerpt: ... 60 SE A P H i CKL 6 VE. quires; on the Contrary deprive them of the Power of becoming Christians: Oh! inhuman Cruelty, which can't be sufficiently exploded, or enough lamented: How joyful a Thing should it be esteem'd, to save a Soul from Eternal Death! How pleasant an Exercise to instruct the Ignorant in the Fear of the Lord! How great is the Reward of ftich Labour! And how noble the Encouragement thereto: Heaven is offered for an Inducement to it; and a Crown of Immortal Glory for a Recompence: How is it then that such mighty Rewards don't engage a Person to obtain them? Why do they keep their Fellow Creatures in Ignorance? Why do they deprive them of Christian Knowledge 1 Or restrain them from Baptilm and embracing the Christian Faith? Why! Because, jay they, They would then be Christians, and think themselves free from an Obligation of perpetual Servitude: A strange Reason, indeed! But who ever claim'd it? Or by what Right can it be claim'd? Are they not sold for their Lives? And what? Does Christianity free them from the Duty of Servitude? No, verily; no otherwise than a Person that is hired for One or a greater Number of Years, is exempted from Labour, because he's a Christian: Christianity theresore don't free them from an Obligation os Servitude, but lightens their Burden, by a Prospect: of suture Reward; and makes them more sobmissive and obedient to their Masters, it changes their slavish Fear into a filial Love, and their Obedience is now, not extorted by Fear, as before, but engaged by Love. and ft Desire of Pleasing, as Christianity requires; and. the more so, as they improve in the Knowledge. os the Christian Faith, for the best Christians are always the most saithsul Servants; and being Servants sor Lise, they patiently sobmit to it, r...