A Condensed Anti-slavery Bible ArgumentS.W. Benedict, 1845 - 91 pages |
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... crime . The following argument is presented for the calm and prayerful consideration of all Chris- tians , both in the North and in the South . The time has come when ( as a learned writer justly remarks * ) , " neither the evidences of ...
... crime . The following argument is presented for the calm and prayerful consideration of all Chris- tians , both in the North and in the South . The time has come when ( as a learned writer justly remarks * ) , " neither the evidences of ...
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... crime . To keep what he earns is stealing . To take his body into his own keeping is insurrection . In a word , the profit of his master is made the END of his being , and he a mere means to that end a mere means to an end into which ...
... crime . To keep what he earns is stealing . To take his body into his own keeping is insurrection . In a word , the profit of his master is made the END of his being , and he a mere means to that end a mere means to an end into which ...
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... crimes against God and his religion have been legalised by men in this world , they are all plainly described and condemned in the Scrip- tures , so that mankind are without any moral or just excuse for committing them . But that the ...
... crimes against God and his religion have been legalised by men in this world , they are all plainly described and condemned in the Scrip- tures , so that mankind are without any moral or just excuse for committing them . But that the ...
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... crimes , condemned by the Levitical law ; declared by the statute to be punishable with sure death - it being very remark ... crime is still further described as the " making merchan- dise ” of the person stolen , as men seldom “ make ...
... crimes , condemned by the Levitical law ; declared by the statute to be punishable with sure death - it being very remark ... crime is still further described as the " making merchan- dise ” of the person stolen , as men seldom “ make ...
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... crime against the law of Nature . In Joseph's own description of the transaction he states that he was " stolen , " 2 Gen. xl . 15. The crime committed upon him was , therefore , stealing , and as he was a man that crime was stealing ...
... crime against the law of Nature . In Joseph's own description of the transaction he states that he was " stolen , " 2 Gen. xl . 15. The crime committed upon him was , therefore , stealing , and as he was a man that crime was stealing ...
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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.