A Scriptural, Ecclesiastical, and Historical View of Slavery: From the Days of the Patriarch Abraham, to the Nineteenth Century. Addressed to the Right Rev. Alonzo Potter ... |
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... Africans stated from Malte Brun . Bishop Newton in opposition to the ultra - abolitionist , • CHAPTER IV . - Hagar and Ishmael . Cruden on Jewish slavery . Vindication of the Bible View of Slavery , · • CHAPTER V. - Objections of the ...
... Africans stated from Malte Brun . Bishop Newton in opposition to the ultra - abolitionist , • CHAPTER IV . - Hagar and Ishmael . Cruden on Jewish slavery . Vindication of the Bible View of Slavery , · • CHAPTER V. - Objections of the ...
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... proving that the main por- tion of Canaan's posterity have always been , and still are among the native Africans , fulfilling the prophecy of Noah . Ultimately , at the time appointed by divine Providence , they will CONTENTS . iii.
... proving that the main por- tion of Canaan's posterity have always been , and still are among the native Africans , fulfilling the prophecy of Noah . Ultimately , at the time appointed by divine Providence , they will CONTENTS . iii.
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... African Company in slave - trade . The Church of England in contrast with ultra - abolitionism , CHAPTER XLII . — Mournful debasement of the English poor , from the work of Joseph Kay , Esq . , CHAPTER XLIII . — Treatment of the slaves ...
... African Company in slave - trade . The Church of England in contrast with ultra - abolitionism , CHAPTER XLII . — Mournful debasement of the English poor , from the work of Joseph Kay , Esq . , CHAPTER XLIII . — Treatment of the slaves ...
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... 72 , and 73. Pool's Synopsia . NOTE 74. Apostolic Canons . NOTE 75. Council of Nice . NOTE 76. St. Augustin . NOTES 77 and 78. S. Basil . NOTE 79. African barbarism . INTRODUCTION FOR THE GENERAL READER . IN the month of CONTENTS . vii.
... 72 , and 73. Pool's Synopsia . NOTE 74. Apostolic Canons . NOTE 75. Council of Nice . NOTE 76. St. Augustin . NOTES 77 and 78. S. Basil . NOTE 79. African barbarism . INTRODUCTION FOR THE GENERAL READER . IN the month of CONTENTS . vii.
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... African , and are generously excited to hate the system of slavery with all their heart . Then the eloquent preacher chooses it for the favorite topic of his oratory . The theme is well adapted to rouse the feelings , and it is usually ...
... African , and are generously excited to hate the system of slavery with all their heart . Then the eloquent preacher chooses it for the favorite topic of his oratory . The theme is well adapted to rouse the feelings , and it is usually ...
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Page 80 - 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 319 - Let as many servants as are under the yoke count their own masters worthy of all honour, that the name of God and his doctrine be not blasphemed. 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 303 - The Lord did not set his love upon you, nor choose you, because ye were more in number than any people ; for ye were the fewest of all people : but because the Lord loved you, and because he would keep the oath which he had sworn unto your fathers, hath the Lord brought you out with a mighty hand, and redeemed you out of the house of bondmen, from the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt.
Page 11 - 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 36 - Have ye not read that He which made them at the beginning made them male and female, and said, for this cause shall a man leave father and mother and shall cleave to his wife, and they twain shall be one flesh ? Wherefore they are no more twain, but one flesh. What, therefore, God hath joined together, let no man put asunder.
Page 13 - Knowing that whatsoever good thing any man doeth, the same shall he receive of the Lord, whether he be bond or free.
Page 9 - And if a man smite his servant, or his maid, with a rod, and he die under his hand; he shall be surely punished. Notwithstanding, if he continue a day or two, he shall not be punished: for he is his money.
Page 9 - I love my master, my wife, and my children; I will not go out free': Then his master shall bring him unto the judges; he shall also bring him to the door, or unto the door post; and his master shall bore his ear through with an awl; and he shall serve him for ever.
Page 303 - Thou shalt surely give him, and thine heart shall not be grieved when thou givest unto him : because that for this thing the LORD thy God shall bless thee in all thy works, and in all that thou puttest thine hand unto. For the poor shall never cease out of the land : therefore I command thee, saying, Thou shalt open thine hand wide unto thy brother, to thy poor, and to thy needy, in thy land.
Page 8 - Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's house, thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's wife, nor his man-servant, nor his maid-servant, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor any thing that is thy neighbor's.