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Excerpt from Christ Rejected; Or the Trial of the Eleven Disciples of Christ, in a Court of Law and Equity, as Charged With Stealing the Crucified Body of Christ Out of the Sepulchre
And it came to pass in process of time, by the over ruling providence of God, that Captain Onesimus ar rived in one of his master's ships of the line, in this spiritual warfare, at the port of Philadelphia, when he went on shore, 'and undertook a pedestrious voyage: and as he was ambulating the streets of that city, he suddenly found himself carried by the pedestrious cm yent of its inhabitants, into Chesnut street: and, having the walking breeze on his star-board quarter, a few pointsfree, and easing away his sheets, and squaring his yards to the wind, when, under a press of sail, he shoots his ship ahead, and soon arrived at an old edi fice, called Congress Hall: (this, Christian friends, is the sacred place where our fathers raised the standard and unfurled the first banner of true civil and religionc liberty, in our dark and oppressed world. And it wasi t this hallowed Hal], that the Declaration of the Indeper. Dence of the Thirteen United States of North America, was first announced to the human race, on the 4th (2 July, when the Christian sailor seeing a vast nunu ber of the citizens of that city, gliding into the old Hall, his marine curiosity drew him with the rushing current, after them.
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