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to all at once. Let no man defpife a little light, but let him ufe that till he can obtain more; fo that his path may be as the fhining light which fhineth more and more unto the perfect day.--The gospel, thanks be to God, is fpreading swiftly abroad; like the leaven, it is fermenting, until the little leaven fhall leaven the whole lump; till all fhall bow to the name of Jefus, and the glory of the Lord fhall fill all lands. In the mean time let all who love our Lord Jefus pray earnestly that his kingdom may come, and his will be done on earth as it is in heaven.

13. GOD feems to be preparing the way for the brightness of his appearing, not only in thefe iflands, in which his falvation has gone forth like a lamp which burneth, for fifty or fixty years past, but, as we are credibly informed, he is bringing mighty things to pass in America, and in the Weft-India-Ilands; even amongst the poor negroes, great numbers of whom are brought to rejoice in a fin-pardoning God.

14. THE noble efforts which have been made in behalf of the poor Africans, wear a moft auJpicious afpect, and fhould their liberty be accomplifhed, and that most infernal commerce, The Slave Trade, be abolished, I fhould not be fur

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prized to hear that God fhould call fome of the converted negroes from their banishment, and fend them to preach the Saviour of all men to their benighted countrymen, fo that the wilderness and the folitery may be glad, and the defert rejoice aud bloffom as the rose.

Ride on thou matchlefs conqueror, till the whole world fhall bow to thy fway! Let thy dominion be from Sea to Sea, yea from pole to pole! Let tyranny and oppreffion cease, and let pure benevolence and love overflow all the earth, and fill every human heart! So prays, fo longs, candid reader, your humble fervant in the gospel, T. TAYLOR.

HULL, Sept. 1789.

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"And then shall that wicked be revealed, whom the
"Lord will confume with the Spirit of his mouth, and
"fhall destroy with the brightness of his coming."

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Suppreffion of Wars and Tyranny.

"Nations shall not lift up fword against nation, nei-
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