15 'Well, now I hope, William, that since God has been so graciously pleased to open your eyes, and affect your mind with such a great sense of his goodness, in giving his Son to die for your sake; I hope, that you do your endeavour to keep his commandments. I hope you strive to behave well to your Master and Mistress, and fellow ser- vants. He that is a Christian inwardly, will be a Christian outwardly: he that truly and savingly believes in Christ, will shew his faith by his works, as the Apostle says. Is it not so, William ?' 'Me love my fellow servants, though, as I tell you before, they not much love me, and I pray God to bless them. And when they say bat tings, and try to make me angry, then me tink, if Jesus Christ were in poor Negro's place, he would not revile and answer again with bat words and tem- per, but he say little, and pray much. And so then, me say nothing at all, but pray God to for- give them.' The more I conversed with this African con- vert, the more satisfactory were the evidences of his mind being spiritually enlightened, and his heart effectually wrought on by the grace of God. I continued for a considerable time in conver- sation with the Negro. I spoke to him on the nature, duty, and privilege of Christian Baptism; pointed out to him from a prayer-book which I had with me, the clear and scriptural principles of our own church upon that head, and found that he was very desirous of conforming to them. He appeared to me to be well qualified for receiving that sacramental pledge of his Redeemer's love. 'God,' said I to him, has promised to sprinkle many nations, not only with the waters of baptism, but also with the dew of his heavenly grace. He
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