Sinfulness of American Slavery: Proved from Its Evil Sources; Its Unjustice; Its Wrongs; Its Contrariety to Many Scriptual Commands, Prohibitions and Principles, and to the Christian Spirit; and from Its Evil Effects; Together with Observations on Emancipation, and the Duties of American Citizens in Regard to Slavery, Volume 1L. Swormstedt & J. H. Power, 1851 |
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Page 287 - of the Church; and he is the savior of the body. Therefore, as the Church is subject unto Christ, so let the wives be to their own husbands in every thing. Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ loved the Church, and gave himself for it,
Page 330 - Knowing this, that the law is not made for a righteous man, but for the lawless and disobedient, for the ungodly and for sinners, for unholy and profane, for murderers of fathers, and murderers of mothers, for man-slayers, for whoremongers, for them that defile themselves with mankind, for men-stealers, for liars,
Page 287 - For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall be joined unto his wife, and they two shall be one flesh. Let every one of you in particular so love his wife even as himself, and the wife see that she reverence her husband,
Page 345 - of the Father is not in him," 1 John ii, 15 ; "Ye adulterers and adulteresses, know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God ? whosoever, therefore, will be a friend of the world is the enemy of God,
Page 19 - of visitation, and in the desolation which shall come from far ? to whom will ye flee for help? and where will ye leave your glory? Without me they shall bow down under the prisoners, and they shall fall under the slain. For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.
Page 73 - let their beds Be made as soft as yours, and let their palates Be seasoned with such viands ? you will answer. The slaves are ours: so do I answer you: The pound of flesh, which I demand of him, Is dearly bought, is mine, and I will have it; If you deny me, fie upon your law.
Page 260 - Behold the hire of the laborers who have reaped down your fields, which is of you kept back by fraud, crieth; and the cries of them that have reaped are entered into the ears of the Lord of Sabaoth,
Page 258 - And the Egyptians made the children of Israel serve with rigor. And they made their lives bitter with hard bondage, in mortar and in brick, and in all manner of service in the field; all the service wherein they made them serve was with rigor,
Page 261 - 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 the place which he shall choose in one of thy gates, where it liketh him best; thou shalt not oppress him,
Page 19 - decree unrighteous decrees, and that write grievousness which they have prescribed; to turn aside the needy from judgment, and to take away the right from the poor of my people, that widows may be their prey, and that they may rob the fatherless ! And what will ye do in the