serve you when you wanted my help. I doubt not therefore, that you will readily hearken to the Good Advice I shall now give you and, as you know me to be your friend and wellwisher, and hope you will remember it hereafter, and think upon it at home and talk it to your fellow servants that are not here, that they may receive advantage by it, as well as you, that hear it from my own mouth."4 Since Bacon is on a friendly level with the audience he makes them believe that the message that they are about to receive is one of extreme importance. A message from a divine figure to people that this person has well wishes for?.

             Bacon paints the picture that the work the slaves are doing is work for God, not for the profit of their master. He then sermonizes that masters and mistresses are godsends; that the man that is in the field with a whip, cracking it over his slaves" backs is a creation of God placed on this planet to take care of the men and women he is so wrongfully abusing. Bacon explains this to his congregation by telling them, "That whatever good thing you do, though you be slaves, bound to serve masters and mistresses, here upon the earth, for the sake of bare maintenance; yet while you are doing what is right and good, you are at the same time, working for a just master in heaven." Bacon proceeds with his sermon "He had sent your fathers and mothers, your masters and mistresses before you, to take care of you, and provide for you, while you could take not care of, or help, or provide for yourselves." "He hath made Masters and Mistresses, for .

             4. Butler, Religion in American History 76.

             taking care of their children, and others that belong to them."5 Bacon justifies this .

             section of his sermon simply by asking his congregation one lucid question, "Can you think that almighty God would send you into the world for bad purposes? He (God) takes care of all.