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I was born in Northampton, in Burlington County, West Jersey, in the year 1720.

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If kind parents love their children and delight in their happiness, then he who is perfect goodness in sending abroad mortal contagions doth assuredly direct their use.

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Many slaves on this continent are oppressed, and their cries have reached the ears of the Most High. Such are the purity and certainty of his judgments, that he cannot be partial in our favor.

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My own will and desires were now very much broken, and my heart was with much earnestness turned to the Lord, to whom alone I looked for help in the dangers before me.

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The care of a wise and good man for his only son is inferior to the regard of the great Parent of the universe for his creatures.

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Through the humbling dispensations of Divine Providence, men are sometimes fitted for his service.

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We sought out and visited all the Indians hereabouts that we could meet with, in number about twenty. They were chiefly in one place, about a mile from where we lodged.

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When men take pleasure in feeling their minds elevated with strong drink, and so indulge their appetite as to disorder their understandings, neglect their duty as members of a family or civil society, and cast off all regard to religion, their case is much to be pitied.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Clergyman

Born: October 19th, 1720

Died: October 7th, 1772

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