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cation in the Spirit, watching thereunto with all perfeverance." Pray and ceafe not, " always making mention of them in your prayers, that they may be ftrengthned with all might, according to God's glorious power, unto all patience and long-fuffering, with joyfulness" in beholding these unhappy people " delivered from the power of darkness, and tranflated into the kingdom of God's dearSon."

AND together with your prayers, let me invite you to give of your fubstance for their bodily fupport and comfort. Some of you, thanks be to God, have very liberally fubfcribed towards a FUND that is intended, if the Lord pleases, to vield a perpetual income for the fervice of Chrift among the Indians; as alfo towards bearing the expence we may be called to in our endeavours, for the three or four first years, to carry the gofpel to them; But, as the fubfcription towards the FUND will not take place till the late INCORPORATING ACT fhall receive the ROYAL SANCTION; and as the temporary subscription, tho' kindly affifted by the commiffioners from the LONDON-SOCIETY, and by the CORPORATION OF HARVARD-COLLEGE, who are intrufted with the difpofal of Dr. WILLIAMS's legacy

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for the inftruction of the Indians: I fay, as this temporary fubfcription, with the -aids afforded to it, is for the present, infufficient to answer the neceffary demands, we think it our duty to call upon thofe, who have not yet had opportunity therefor, to express their regards to Chrift by now offering freely to promote his caufe.

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AND were our views, in this matter, -confined to this world only, there would not be wanting powerful inducements to prompt us to liberality. We should hereby attach the Indians to our interest ; at leaft, we should do that which would happily tend to answer fo good a purpose. Had we, in times paft, been at the ex'pence that was neceffary in order to their instruction in the things of God and Jefus Chrift, instead of "fuares and traps to us, fcourges in our fides and thorns in our eyes," they might have been our fast friends, and maintained a correfpondence with us to our advantage as well as their Own. The French nation have taught us this to our forrow as well as coft.They have all along made it a point to fupport miffionaries among the Indians, wherever they could; and to this chiefly it is owing, that they have had fuch power over them. By the pains they have taken

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taken to convert them, not to the faith of Chrift, but to the religion of Rome, they have been able to use them as inftruments in bringing into effect their mischievous defigns against us; and by them they have committed those barbarities we hould never have felt, could they not have excufed themselves by transferring the fhame of them to thefe favages in alliance with them. And as there are numerous tribes of them untainted as yet with Romish fuperftition, would it not be wife policy to use all proper endeavours to bring them to the faith, not " of a lie," but" of the truth as it is in Jefus ? Would not this, in the end, be the leaft expenfive method to make and keep them our good friends and peaceable neighbours?

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BUT there are much higher motives to excite in us a zeal to promote the interest of Chrift among the Indian tribes, and much nobler principles to act from in the charitable expreffions of it. -We fhould be conftrained from gratitude to God that God, who, by crowning the British arms, in these American lands, with fuccefs beyond even our biggest expectations, has opened a wide door for fending the gofpel to the Gentiles inhabiting here. And in what more proper way can we

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manifest the fenfe we have of our obligations to the fupremeRuler, than by taking occafion from the fignal victories he has given us to contribute to the enlargement of the kingdom of his fon Jefus Chrift If our MOTHER-COUNTY, and HE' THAT SWAYS THE SCEPTRE THERE,

fhould, by pious donations, encourage fuch measures as are wifely concerted to fpread the religion of Jefus in thefe distant and dark corners of the world, would it be an unsuitable acknowledgment to" the King of Kings" for the great things he has done for them, as well as us? May we not rather say, thus" to do good and communicate" would be "an odour of a sweet smell, a facrifice acceptable, wellpleafing to God"?-Love to Christ should likewife open our hearts and hands upon this occafion. "Tis in his caufe, and to promote the honor of his name, that we are urged to bountifulness: And how powerfully is this motive adapted to work upon us? Shall we pretend an affection to the Saviour of men, and not exert ourfelves, as we are able, and have opportunity, to spread the knowledge of his religion, and extend the borders of his kingdom? If we hang back, or difcover á niggardly difpofition, "how dwelleth the love of Chrift in us"? It may be

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Love alfo to the fouls of our fellowmen, blinded by the God of this world, and perilhing in the darkness of ignorance, and fin, fhould move our hearts. Who among the fons of Adam are more proper objects of our chriftian compaffion? And how should it operate, if not in charitable endeavours, that they may be " tranflated into the light of the glorious gofpel" With what face of truth can we profefs religious kindness towards them, if we cannot find without ourselves a difpofition to be at fome fmall expence to encourage the use of means to prevent their being "hurt of the fecond death ?

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THERE are, I truft, a good number. here prefent, who "love Chrift that first loved them," and thofe alfo who are "ungodly and without ftrength," as they were themselves when Chrift died "for them." And will fuch be ftraitned in their own bowels, when they have a fair opportunity to affift in enlarging the intereft of Chrift, and faving the fouls of those who are in a loft condition? They will rather exert themselves with all chearfulness and liberality in carrying fo noble a defign into execution.

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