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chap. IV.] WEST INDIES. 
God, given unto all mankind. E T pon the fulfil¬ 
ment of this the missionaries insist every where. 
Every thing that is accounted decent and virtuous 
among Christians, is inculcated into the minds of 
the people. Drunkenness, adultery, whoredom, 
sorcery, theft, anger, and revenge, and all other 
works of the flesh, as enumerated by our Lord and 
his Apostles as proceeding from the heart, being 
plain proofs that man is either unconverted, or 
again fallen into heathenism and idolatry, it follows 
of course, that any one guilty of these things is put 
away from the congregation, and not re-admitted be¬ 
fore a true and sincere repentance is apparent, and 
the offence done away: but it is not sufficient that 
the believers abstain from open scandal, their pri¬ 
vate behaviour in their families, and in every oc¬ 
currence of life, must evidence a thorough change 
of heart and principles: indeed, the believing ne¬ 
groes in Antigua, and in other places where the 
brethren have missions, are so much under the in¬ 
fluence of their masters, and of a variety of circum¬ 
stances that attend their being slaves, that it may 
perhaps seem more difficult to effect a change of 
customs and practices, and to enforce a steady 
Christian conduct in all cases amongst them, than 
amongst free heathens; and yet it must be owned, 
to the praise of God, that this is visible at present 
in many thousand converted negroes. 
The missionaries, however, have frequent oc¬ 
casion to see with sorrow, how deeply rooted the 
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