Genius of Universal Emancipation, Volume 13B. Lundy, 1833 - Antislavery movements |
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... Thus saith the Lord , let not the wise man glory in his wisdom ; neither let the mighty man glory in his might ; let not the rich man glory in his riches . But let him that glorieth , glory in this , that he understandeth and knoweth me ...
... Thus saith the Lord , let not the wise man glory in his wisdom ; neither let the mighty man glory in his might ; let not the rich man glory in his riches . But let him that glorieth , glory in this , that he understandeth and knoweth me ...
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Page 145 - And can the liberties of a nation be thought secure when we have removed their only firm basis, a conviction in the minds of the people that these liberties are of the gift of God?
Page 145 - The whole commerce between master and slave is a perpetual exercise of the most boisterous passions, the most unremitting despotism on the one part, and degrading submissions on the other.
Page 126 - Bring no more vain oblations; incense is an abomination unto me; the new moons and sabbaths, the calling of assemblies, I cannot away with; it is iniquity, even the solemn meeting. Your new moons and your appointed feasts my soul hateth: they are a trouble unto me; I am weary to bear them.
Page 134 - 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 145 - For if a slave can have a country in this world, it must be any other in preference to that in which he is born to live and labor for another...
Page 145 - The parent storms, the child looks on, catehes the lineaments of wrath, puts on the same airs in the circle of smaller slaves, gives a loose to the worst of passions, and thus nursed, educated, and daily exercised in tyranny, cannot but be stamped by it with odious peculiarities.
Page 134 - Shall I not visit for these things ? saith the Lord : shall not my soul be avenged on such a nation as this?
Page 159 - Thou shalt not deliver unto his master the servant which is escaped from his master unto thee : he shall dwell with thee, even among you, in that place which he shall choose in one of thy gates, where it liketh him best: thou shalt not oppress him.
Page 169 - And I sought for a man among them, that should make up the hedge, and stand in the gap before me for the land, that I should not destroy it: but I found none. Therefore have I poured out mine indignation upon them ; I have consumed them with the fire of my wrath...
Page 134 - 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.