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It is at times, almost too much for human nature to bear, and I am obliged to turn my thoughts from the subject or endeavour to still my mind, by considering that it is permitted thus to be, by that God who governs all things, who seteth up one and pulleth down another.

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Riches and honours which drown the greater part of mankind, who have the gospel, in perdition, can be little or no temptations to us.

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In hopes of this I will beg of you to spare no pains in trying to learn to read. If you are once engaged you may learn.

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All the time spent idly, is spent wickedly, and is unfaithfulness to our masters.

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Let all the time you can get be spent in trying to learn to read.

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You have discovered so much kindness and good will to those you thought were oppressed, and had no helper, that I am sure you will not despise what I have wrote, if you judge it will be of any service to them.

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But this will not do, God will certainly punish you for stealing and for being unfaithful.

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In the Bible God has told us every thing it is necessary we should know, in order to be happy here and hereafter.

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It is very wicked for you not to take care of your masters goods, but how much worse is it to pilfer and steal from them, whenever you think you shall not be found out.

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We cannot certainly, have any excuse either for taking any thing that belongs to our masters without their leave, or for being unfaithful in their business.

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We live so little time in this world that it is no matter how wretched and miserable we are, if it prepares us for heaven.

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If a servant strives to please his master and studies and takes pains to do it, I believe there are but few masters who would use such a servant cruelly.

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Good servants frequently make good masters.

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He will bring us all, rich and poor, white and black, to his judgment seat.

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I suppose I have had more advantages and privileges than most of you, who are slaves have ever known, and I believe more than many white people have enjoyed, for which I desire to bless God, and pray that he may bless those who have given them to me.

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I have heard some learned and good men say, that the heathen, and all that worshiped false Gods, never spoke lightly or irreverently of their Gods, they never took their names in vain, or jested with those things which they held sacred.

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Our slavery will be at an end, and though ever so mean, low, and despited in this world, we shall sit with God in his kingdom as Kings and Priests, and rejoice forever, and ever.

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It is our duty to be faithful, not with eye service as men pleasers.

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Now the Bible tells us that we are all by nature, sinners, that we are slaves to sin and Satan, and that unless we are converted, or born again, we must be miserable forever.

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A sovereign's great example forms a people; the public breast is noble or vile as he inspires it.

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