A Condensed Anti-slavery Bible ArgumentS.W. Benedict, 1845 - 91 pages |
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... the ready inquiry instantly occurs , why did God , who never does anything in vain , regulate and thereby ap- prove and sanction a practice in the passages first quoted USES OF THE WORDS " BUY " AND 27 " SELL . " CHAPTER VII.
... the ready inquiry instantly occurs , why did God , who never does anything in vain , regulate and thereby ap- prove and sanction a practice in the passages first quoted USES OF THE WORDS " BUY " AND 27 " SELL . " CHAPTER VII.
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... regulate , and restrain , and guide all human legislation - no other laws , now existing being so perfectly adapted to secure the temporal as well as spiritual hap- piness of mankind as those contained in the ancient Levitical code . It ...
... regulate , and restrain , and guide all human legislation - no other laws , now existing being so perfectly adapted to secure the temporal as well as spiritual hap- piness of mankind as those contained in the ancient Levitical code . It ...
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... regulate slave sales , there is no probability that they would have been limited to the period of six years , but would have been in perpetuity like the sales of other property . For these reasons the statute was undoubtedly intended to ...
... regulate slave sales , there is no probability that they would have been limited to the period of six years , but would have been in perpetuity like the sales of other property . For these reasons the statute was undoubtedly intended to ...
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... regulate the well known oriental custom of buying and selling daughters and female wards for wives . Contrary to our own custom in such cases , by which parents and guardians give por- tions , dowries , or endowments to their daughters ...
... regulate the well known oriental custom of buying and selling daughters and female wards for wives . Contrary to our own custom in such cases , by which parents and guardians give por- tions , dowries , or endowments to their daughters ...
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... regulating a peculiar case of homi- cide which would be liable to great abuse without such a regula- tion . As the oriental custom in common with that allowed mas . ters to give their servants necessary and reasonable correction the ...
... regulating a peculiar case of homi- cide which would be liable to great abuse without such a regula- tion . As the oriental custom in common with that allowed mas . ters to give their servants necessary and reasonable correction the ...
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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.