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Jupiter Hammon

"If you see most people neglect the Bible, and many that can read never look into it, let it not harden you and make you think lightly of it, and that it is a book of no worth."

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"If you see most people neglect the Bible, and many that can read never look into it, let it not harden you and make you think lightly of it, and that it is a book of no worth."

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"If we should ever get to Heaven, we shall find nobody to reproach us for being black, or for being slaves."
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"But this will not do, God will certainly punish you for stealing and for being unfaithful."
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"He will bring us all, rich and poor, white and black, to his judgment seat."
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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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"That liberty is a great thing we may know from our own feelings, and we may likewise judge so from the conduct of the white-people, in the late war."
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"Besides all this, if you are idle, and take to bad courses, you will hurt those of your brethren who are slaves, and do all in your power to prevent their being free."
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"When I was at Hartford in Connecticut, where I lived during the war, I published several pieces which were well received, not only by those of my own colour, but by a number of the white people, who thought they might do good among their servants."
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"The Bible is a revelation of the mind and will of God to men. Therein we may learn, what God is."
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