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The Quakers Assisting to Preserve the Lives of the Indians - 6

ly as those that had the Law of Moses,----obeying of which is a peculiar Advantage to every Man; a Blessing that cannot be taken from him, while he himself is zelous for his own Good. But if a Man neglects his Duty, and abandons himself to Wickedness, I believe in Time it may cease striving with him: When men give themselves to lying Evils, and by Degree give way to immoral Acts, they become dark and senseless to any Good; and are willing to perpetrate any Crime to serve their Humours, if it be even Murder itself. But those People, although, they have forsaken the Gifts of Grace, they cannot fly from a guilty Conscience, they have broken the Law of God, their Punishment is such, that they cannot give themselves Ease, neither can they receive it from another, there is a continual Knawing, as though their Bowels were rent in pieces, with Sights of Sorrow, and perpetual Griefs, that cannot be uttered: A woeful Feeling of the Pains of Hell, and no Relief to be had, but by delivering themselves up to Justice, and praying to God for Mercy, desiring that he in his Goodness would admit of that Sacrifice: And make it acceptable to him, viz. The Life of the Body as an Attonement for the Sins of the Soul. For Blood it defileth the Land and the Land cannot be cleansed of the Blood that

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