Lectures on Slavery, and Its Remedy |
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abolition admit adopted American slaveholding Beriah Green Bible sanctions blood bondage Borthwick Bridgton cease Christian Church circumstances colony conscience consent constitution continued crime danger DECLARATION OF SENTIMENT duty evil existence facts father fear give God's gospel gradual emancipation guilt hand immediate emancipation individual iniquity instruction insurrection interest island Jamaica John Major judgment killed land LECTURE Lempster Liberia liberty manumission manumitted master means ment mind ministers moral murdered nation negroes never NEW-ENGLAND ANTI-SLAVERY SOCIETY non-qualification Norridgewock object once oppression Pastor Cong perpetuate persons plain plantation planter practice present slaveholding principle of action public sentiment punishment qualified for freedom question R. S. Storrs reason remedy repentance respect scheme of immediate servitude sins slave-trade slaves society South Carolina spirit suppose talk theory thing tion traffic true truth urged Vassalboro whites whole wicked wrong
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Page xxi - the wolf also shall dwell with the lamb, and the leopard shall lie down with the kid; and the calf and the young lion and the falling together; and a little child shall lead them—they shall not hurt nor destroy in all
Page 92 - built the tombs of the prophets, and garnished the sepulchres of the righteous, and said, if we had been in the days of our fathers, we would not have been partakers with them in the blood of the prophets ; and yet,
Page 39 - Thou shall not deliver unto his master the servant that 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 shall not oppress him.
Page 92 - upon them all the righteous blood shed upon the earth, from the blood of righteous Abel unto the blood of Zacharias, son of Barachias, whom they slew between the temple and the altar.
Page 159 - off the skirt of thy robe, and killed thee not, know thou and see. that there is neither evil nor transgression in mine hand. * * * * The Lord judge between me and thee, and the Lord avenge me of thee ; but mine hand shall not be upon thee.
Page xviii - Ex. xxi. 16,' He that stealeth a man and selleth him, or if he be found in his hand, he shall surely be put to death:
Page 92 - and fire from the Lord out of heaven; and overthrew those cities, and all the plain and all the inhabitants of the cities, and that which grew upon the ground,
Page 34 - heard our voice, and looked on our affliction and our labor and our oppression : And the Lord brought us forth out of Egypt with a mighty hand, and with an out-stretched arm and with great
Page vii - priest's lips should keep knowledge, and they should seek the law at his mouth : for he is the messenger of the Lord of hosts.
Page 23 - mean ye, that ye use this proverb concerning the land of Israel, saying, "The fathers have eaten sour grapes, and the children's teeth are set on edge ? ;f