A Condensed Anti-slavery Bible ArgumentS.W. Benedict, 1845 - 91 pages |
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... common law , nor any other just law , sets any other bounds than that we so exer- of our own rights as not to infringe the same rights in other human beings . A Wrong is defined to be , any voluntary act which dis- turbs , interrupts ...
... common law , nor any other just law , sets any other bounds than that we so exer- of our own rights as not to infringe the same rights in other human beings . A Wrong is defined to be , any voluntary act which dis- turbs , interrupts ...
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... common law definitions by the same name . But it is condemned in the Scrip- tures under other names , and by descriptions , plainly and severely . There are many modern practices , such as piracy , duelling , gam- bling , & c . , which ...
... common law definitions by the same name . But it is condemned in the Scrip- tures under other names , and by descriptions , plainly and severely . There are many modern practices , such as piracy , duelling , gam- bling , & c . , which ...
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... common English translation , for I have not the least doubt but what the men - stealers , men - sellers , men - buyers and men- holders described in 1Ex . xxi . 16 , and Deut . xxiv . 7 , were bonâ fide slaveholders , so that since man ...
... common English translation , for I have not the least doubt but what the men - stealers , men - sellers , men - buyers and men- holders described in 1Ex . xxi . 16 , and Deut . xxiv . 7 , were bonâ fide slaveholders , so that since man ...
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... common thief steals common goods and chattels for his own exclusive use ; both of these kinds of thieves well knowing they have no moral or just right to the property stolen , as each would instantly see and acknowledge , were the crime ...
... common thief steals common goods and chattels for his own exclusive use ; both of these kinds of thieves well knowing they have no moral or just right to the property stolen , as each would instantly see and acknowledge , were the crime ...
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... common with the people of most other modern nations , customarily and familiarly use the same words " buy " and " sell " to describe free and voluntary service . Thus , we customarily say with respect to town or parish paupers , that ...
... common with the people of most other modern nations , customarily and familiarly use the same words " buy " and " sell " to describe free and voluntary service . Thus , we customarily say with respect to town or parish paupers , that ...
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absurd abuse American slaveholders apostles bought brethren Canaan CHAPTER children of Israel Christ Christian church condemned connived crime custom customarily described destroy Deut divine doctrine Egypt enslaved Epistle to Philemon fact false free and voluntary heathen Hebrew language Hebrew servitudes human governments human slavery intended Ishmaelites Israel Israelites Jews Jubilee justified latter Law of Nature Levitical law Lord man-stealing masters Matt modern moral duty moral law murder nation never Old Testament Onesimus oppression passages Pentateuch persecution persons Pharaoh political posterity practice of human preaching precepts pretend PRO-SLAVERY PERVERSIONS property or slaves prove punishment quoted reason regulate religion rendered respect sanction Scrip Scriptures sell sins slaveholders slavish sold sons of Noah spirit thee thou shalt tion translation unto verse violation voluntary service whole wicked words buy xvii xviii xxiii xxiv xxvii xxxiv
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Page 5 - And I will come near to you to judgment; and I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, and against the adulterers, and against false swearers, and against those that oppress the hireling in his wages, the widow, and the fatherless, and that turn aside the stranger from his right, and fear not me, saith the Lord of hosts.
Page 1 - But be not ye called Rabbi : for one is your Master, even Christ ; and all ye are brethren.
Page 3 - Behold, the hire of the labourers who have reaped down your fields, which is of you kept back by fraud, crieth : and the cries of them which have reaped are entered into the ears of the Lord of Sabaoth.
Page 5 - Ye shall not afflict any widow, or fatherless child. If thou afflict them in any wise, and they cry at all unto me, I will surely hear their cry ; and my wrath shall wax hot, and I will kill you with the sword ; and your wives shall be widows, and your children fatherless.
Page 1 - And they sat down to eat bread. And they lifted up their eyes and looked, and, behold, a company of Ishmeelites came from Gilead with their camels bearing spicery and balm and myrrh, going to carry it down to Egypt.
Page 1 - For they bind heavy burdens and grievous to be borne, and lay them on men's shoulders; but they themselves will not move them with one of their fingers.
Page 5 - At his day thou shalt give him his hire, neither shall the sun go down upon it; for he is poor, and setteth his heart upon it: lest he cry against thee unto the LORD, and it be sin unto thee.