Note 703 — Chapter XII · OBLIGATORY CIVIL MARRIAGE IN THE NEW ENGLAND COLONIES (continued 2)

"And finally," continues the minister, "I exhort & charge you to beware lest you give place to the Devil, so as to take Occasion from the Licence now given you, to be lifted up with Pride, and thereby fall under the Displeasure, not of Man only, but of God also; for, it is written, that God resisteth the Proud, but he giveth Grace to the humble.

"I shall now conclude w^th Prayer for you, that you may become good Christians, and that you may be enabled to conduct as such; and in partic^r, that you may have Grace to behave suitably towards each Other, as also dutifully towards your Masters & Mistresses, not w^th Eye-Service, as Men-pleasers, but as y^e serv^ts of Chr^t, doing y^e will of God from y^e heart." Published by Moore, Slave Marriages in Mass.: in Dawson's Hist. Mag., 2d series, V, 137.