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... tolerate , but whether the idolatry with which Christianity then came in actual collision was consistent with its principles . In examining the morality of the stage , shall we not examine it as it is , not as it possibly might be ...
... tolerate , but whether the idolatry with which Christianity then came in actual collision was consistent with its principles . In examining the morality of the stage , shall we not examine it as it is , not as it possibly might be ...
Page 34
... tolerated among the ancient people of God . Abraham had servants in his family who were bought with money . ' The Mosaic institution recognised the lawfulness of slavery . Our argument , from this acknowledged fact , is , that if God ...
... tolerated among the ancient people of God . Abraham had servants in his family who were bought with money . ' The Mosaic institution recognised the lawfulness of slavery . Our argument , from this acknowledged fact , is , that if God ...
Page 35
... tolerated . You admit some sort of slavery to have been allowed in the Old Testament , and suffered by Jesus and his apostles . A man who denies this will deny any thing , and only proves how much stronger a passion is than the clearest ...
... tolerated . You admit some sort of slavery to have been allowed in the Old Testament , and suffered by Jesus and his apostles . A man who denies this will deny any thing , and only proves how much stronger a passion is than the clearest ...
Page 109
... tolerate that which he found in existence , and which could not be at once removed , but which he did not regard in itself as good or right , and which he would by no means have originated . The true inquiry here , therefore , should be ...
... tolerate that which he found in existence , and which could not be at once removed , but which he did not regard in itself as good or right , and which he would by no means have originated . The true inquiry here , therefore , should be ...
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... tolerated at one period of the world is always right ; that what was tolerated three thou- sand years ago , under the Hebrew system of legislation , is proper under the Gospel . The argument implies that what is allowed at one period of ...
... tolerated at one period of the world is always right ; that what was tolerated three thou- sand years ago , under the Hebrew system of legislation , is proper under the Gospel . The argument implies that what is allowed at one period of ...
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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.