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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... supposed formerly to be Ambrose of Milan . NOTES 22-26 . St. Augustine . NOTES 27-29 . St. Basil , Latin version . NOTE 30. St. Chrysostom . Latin version . NOTE 31. Prosper of Aquitaine . NOTES 32-34 . Gregory the Great . NOTE 35 ...
... supposed formerly to be Ambrose of Milan . NOTES 22-26 . St. Augustine . NOTES 27-29 . St. Basil , Latin version . NOTE 30. St. Chrysostom . Latin version . NOTE 31. Prosper of Aquitaine . NOTES 32-34 . Gregory the Great . NOTE 35 ...
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... supposed to be abol- ished by the new dispensation ? But the precepts and the conduct of St. Paul himself , the great apostle of the Gentiles , are all - sufficient , because he meets the very point , and settles the whole question ...
... supposed to be abol- ished by the new dispensation ? But the precepts and the conduct of St. Paul himself , the great apostle of the Gentiles , are all - sufficient , because he meets the very point , and settles the whole question ...
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... is well adapted to rouse the feelings , and it is usually by no means difficult to interest and gratify the audience , when the supposed sins of others , which they are under no temptation to commit BIBLE VIEW OF SLAVERY . 17.
... is well adapted to rouse the feelings , and it is usually by no means difficult to interest and gratify the audience , when the supposed sins of others , which they are under no temptation to commit BIBLE VIEW OF SLAVERY . 17.
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... supposed that your Union party in Pennsyl vania are ultra - abolitionists , which they do not profess to be . My only object in writing it was to show the error of those mistaken philanthropists , by exhibiting the Bible view of slavery ...
... supposed that your Union party in Pennsyl vania are ultra - abolitionists , which they do not profess to be . My only object in writing it was to show the error of those mistaken philanthropists , by exhibiting the Bible view of slavery ...
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... supposed error in extending it to the posterity of Ham , or the African generally . Let me therefore recall to the memory of my antagonists the language of Bishop Newton , whose well - known work upon the Prophecies is on the list ...
... supposed error in extending it to the posterity of Ham , or the African generally . Let me therefore recall to the memory of my antagonists the language of Bishop Newton , whose well - known work upon the Prophecies is on the list ...
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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.