An Inquiry Into the Scriptural Views of SlaveryPerkins & Purves, 1846 - 384 pages |
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... relation in which legislative bodies alone are concerned · · · • · ( 5. ) Does not pertain wholly to a legislature to regulate ( 6. ) Not a condition like that of the serfs of Russia , & c . ( 7. ) Not the kind of property which a man ...
... relation in which legislative bodies alone are concerned · · · • · ( 5. ) Does not pertain wholly to a legislature to regulate ( 6. ) Not a condition like that of the serfs of Russia , & c . ( 7. ) Not the kind of property which a man ...
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... relation to Servitude . § 1. What the argument which is relied on is § 2. What the Mosaic institutions in regard to servitude were §3 . Comparison of the Mosaic institutions in relation to slavery with those existing in the United ...
... relation to Servitude . § 1. What the argument which is relied on is § 2. What the Mosaic institutions in regard to servitude were §3 . Comparison of the Mosaic institutions in relation to slavery with those existing in the United ...
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... relation of master and slave ; nor will I venture to say that I should be in any way likely to be more faithful in this respect if my lot were cast there , than I fear is the case with most of those who reside there , but I may be ...
... relation of master and slave ; nor will I venture to say that I should be in any way likely to be more faithful in this respect if my lot were cast there , than I fear is the case with most of those who reside there , but I may be ...
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Albert Barnes. their children . In all other cases , men distinguish between the relation , whether of kings and ... relations . If they would make the same distinction between slaveholding and the slave laws , they would see that the ...
Albert Barnes. their children . In all other cases , men distinguish between the relation , whether of kings and ... relations . If they would make the same distinction between slaveholding and the slave laws , they would see that the ...
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... relation to which there are clear principles in that book , the intellect , and the heart , and the laws of this great people will bow reverently before that high authority . It is proper therefore to bring this question before this ...
... relation to which there are clear principles in that book , the intellect , and the heart , and the laws of this great people will bow reverently before that high authority . It is proper therefore to bring this question before this ...
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Page 228 - For I am a man under authority, having soldiers under me : and I say to this man, Go, and he goeth ; and to another, Come, and he cometh ; and to my servant, Do this, and he doeth it.
Page 267 - And they that have believing masters, let them not despise them, because they are brethren ; but rather do them service, because they are faithful and beloved, partakers of the benefit These things teach and exhort.
Page 267 - Servants, be subject to your masters with all fear ; not only to the good and gentle, but also to the froward.
Page 148 - Both thy bondmen, and thy bondmaids, which thou shalt have, shall be of the heathen that are round about you ; of them shall ye buy bondmen and bondmaids. Moreover of the children of the strangers that do sojourn among you, of them shall ye buy, and of their families that are with you, which they begat in your land : and they shall be your possession. And ye shall take them as an inheritance for your children after you, to inherit them for a possession; they shall be your bondmen for ever: but over...
Page 324 - Not now as a servant, but above a servant, a brother beloved, specially to me, but how much more unto thee, both in the flesh, and in the Lord ? 17 If thou count me therefore a partner, receive him as myself.
Page 278 - In the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, when ye are gathered together, and my spirit, with the power of our Lord Jesus Christ, To deliver such an one unto Satan for the destruction of the flesh, that the spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus.
Page 329 - Circumcision is nothing, and uncircumcision is nothing, but the keeping of the commandments of God. 20 Let every man abide in the same calling wherein he was called.
Page 89 - Behold, the people of the children of Israel are more and mightier than we : come on, let us deal wisely with them ; lest they multiply, and it come to pass, that, when there falleth out any war, they join also unto our enemies, and fight against us, and so get them up out of the land.
Page 353 - And he that stealeth a man, and selleth him, or if he be found in his hand, he shall surely be put to death.
Page 127 - He that is born in thy house, and he that is bought with thy money, must needs be circumcised : and my covenant shall be in your flesh, for an everlasting covenant. And the uncircumcised man-child, whose flesh of his foreskin is not circumcised, that soul shall be cut off from his people : he hath broken my covenant.