from the Legislature, whereby so many Thousand lives are yearly sacrificed? Do we indeed believe the truths declared in the Gospel? Are we persuaded that the threatenings, as well as the promises therein contained, will have their accomplishment? If indeed we do, must we not tremble to think what a load of guilt lies upon our Nation generally, and individually so far as we in any degree abet or countenance this aggravated iniquity? We have a memorable Instance in history, which may be fruitful of Instruction, if timely and properly applied; it is a quotation made by Sir _John Temple_, in his history of the _Irish_ rebellion, being an observation out of _Giraldus Cambrensis_, a noted author, who lived about six hundred years ago, concerning the causes of the prosperity of the _English_ undertakings in _Ireland_, when they conquered that Island, he saith, ‘That a synod, or council of the Clergy, being then assembled at _Armagh_, and that point fully debated, it was unanimously agreed, that the sins of the people were the occasion of that heavy judgment then falling upon their nation; and that especially their buying of _Englishmen_ from merchants and pirates, and detaining them under a most miserable hard bondage, had caused the Lord, by way of just retaliation, to leave them to be reduced, by the _English_, to the same state of slavery. Whereupon they made a publick act in that council, that all the _English_ held in captivity throughout the whole land, should be presently restored to their former Liberty.’ I shall now conclude with an extract from an address of a late author to the merchants, and others, who are concerned in carrying on the _Guinea_ Trade; which also, in a great measure, is applicable to others, who, for the love of gain, are in any way concerned in promoting or maintaining the captivity of the Negroes.