Wesley Corpus

Treatise Thoughts Upon Slavery

AuthorJohn Wesley
Typetreatise
YearNone
Passage IDjw-treatise-thoughts-upon-slavery-024
Words215
Catholic Spirit Universal Redemption Works of Mercy
7. Othou God of love, thou who art loving to every man, and whose mercy is over all thy works; thou who art the Father of the spirits of all flesh, and who art rich in mercy unto all; thou who hast mingled of one blood all the nations upon earth; have compassion upon these outcasts of men, who are trodden down as dung upon the earth ! Arise, and help these that have no helper, whose blood is spilt upon the ground like water | Are not these also the work of thine own hands, the purchase of thy Son’s blood? Stir them up to cry unto thee in the land of their captivity; and let their complaint come up before thee; let it enter into thy ears! Make even those that lead them away captive to pity them, and turn their captivity as the rivers in the south. O burst thou all their chains in sunder; more especially the chains of their sins! Thou Saviour of all, make them free, that they may be free indeed! The servile progeny of Ham Seize as the purchase of thy blood | Let all the Heathens know thy name: From idols to the living God The dark Americans convert, And shine in every pagan heart 1