May these
considerations induce thee to interpose thy kind endeavours in
behalf of this greatly injured people, whose abject situation
gives them an additional claim to the pity and assistance of the
generous mind, inasmuch as they are altogether deprived of the
means of soliciting effectual relief for themselves; that so
thou mayest not only be a blessed instrument in the hand of him
'by whom kings reign and princes decree justice,' to avert the
awful judgments by which the empire has already been so
remarkably shaken, but that the blessings of thousands ready to
perish may come upon thee, at a time when the superior
advantages attendant on thy situation in this world will no
longer be of any avail to thy consolation and support.
To the tracts on this subject to which I have thus ventured to
crave thy particular attention, I have added some which at
different times I have believed it my duty to publish[A], and
which, I trust, will afford thee some satisfaction, their design
being for the furtherance of that universal peace and good-will
amongst men, which the Gospel was intended to introduce.
[Footnote A: These related to the principles of the religious
society of the Quakers.
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