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A Dialogue, Containing Some Reflections on the Late "Declaration and Remonstrance" - 9
12017-01-14T12:07:32-08:00Will Fenton82bf9011a953584cd702d069a30cbdb6ef90650a72001(annotation)plain2017-01-14T12:07:32-08:00Will Fenton82bf9011a953584cd702d069a30cbdb6ef90650ayour Creator, who is one God over all, blessed for evermore; I say, through him, whose tender Mercies are over all his Works, and before whose Eye the Colour of the Skin is nothing, hath been pleased in his boundless Compassion, to send Gospel Ministers amongst them, and these few out of the many Thousands in America, have embraced and receiv’d the joyful Report of the Gospel: And further, they have, after believing in JESUS, been baptized in his Name, and into his Death, who is both their Lord and ours. And again, many of these Savages, as they are called, have, and do yet, partake of the Lord’s Supper, or Holy Communion; and ‘tis not only a Pleasure, but Astonishing, when one converses with them, to find how well grounded they are in the Principles and Doctrines of the Old and New Testaments, and our reform’d Religion. ----One Thing more I would observe, which to me, is a stronger Proof yet, of their being rooted and grounded in the Living Power and Faith of the Gospel and that is, at the Time of the late Tumult, when most of the People believed that the Rioters from the Frontiers had their Eye chiefly against them, to cut them off from the Land of the Living, both Root and Branch; yet through the Time of this deep Calamity, their serene Looks and quiet Deportment, plainly indicated an upright Heart, and a Mind at ease; and this even in the View of an approaching and untimely Death, by wicked and cruel Hands, already stain’d with Human Blood. I myself have visited them two or three Times in their present Exile, and have always found them to be free, pleasant, calm and unruffled. Like a Summer's Sea, when not a Breath of Wind flies o'er its Surface. Zeal. And may I, Sir, give Credit to this Report of your’s? Posit. For my Part, hang me if I’ll believe any Thing like it.—CHRISTIANS’. I swear it can’t be true; nor shall this, or any Thing you can advance in their Favour, alter my fix’d Opinion of them; nay, if I tho’t that any of their Colour was to be admitted into the Heavenly World, I would not desire to go there myself.
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12016-08-19T12:59:34-07:00Will Fenton82bf9011a953584cd702d069a30cbdb6ef90650aA Dialogue, Containing Some Reflections on the Late "Declaration and Remonstrance" - 91A Dialogue, containing some reflections on the late declaration and remonstrance, of the back-inhabitants of the province of Pennsylvania. With a serious and short address, to those Presbyterians, who (to their dishonor) have too much abetted, and conniv'd at the late insurrection. By a member of that community. [Four lines from Thomson]2016-08-19T12:59:34-07:00Will Fenton82bf9011a953584cd702d069a30cbdb6ef90650a
