The Testimony of God Against Slavery: A Collection of Passages from the Bible : which Show the Sin of Holding and Treating the Human Species as Property : with Notes : to which is Added the Testimony of the Civilized World Against Slavery |
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Page 169 - In all prosecutions or indictments for libels, the truth may be given in evidence to the jury ; and if it shall appear to the jury, that the matter charged as libelous, is true, and was published with good motives, and for justifiable ends, the party shall be acquitted ; and the jury shall have the right to determine the law and the fact.
Page 21 - For the LORD your God is God of gods, and Lord of lords, a great God, a mighty, and a terrible, which regardeth not persons, nor taketh reward...
Page 56 - For he shall deliver the needy when he crieth ; The poor also, and him that hath no helper. He shall spare the poor and needy, And shall save the souls of the needy. He shall redeem their soul from deceit and violence : And precious shall their blood be in his sight.
Page 170 - The printing presses shall be free to every person, who undertakes to examine the proceedings of the Legislature, or any branch of government; and no law shall ever be made to restrain the right thereof. The free communication of thoughts and opinions is one of the invaluable rights of man; and every citizen may freely speak, write, and print on any subject, being responsible for the abuse of that liberty.
Page 138 - But there were false prophets also among the people, even as there shall be false teachers among you who privily shall bring in damnable heresies, even denying the Lord that bought them, and bring upon themselves swift destruction. And many shall follow their pernicious ways; by reason of whom the way of truth shall be evil spoken of.
Page 69 - The whole commerce between master and slave is a perpetual exercise of the most boisterous passions, — the most unremitting despotism on the one part and degrading submissions on the other.
Page 12 - And it came to pass in process of time, that the king of Egypt died : and the children of Israel sighed by reason of the bondage, and they cried, and their cry came up unto God by reason of the bondage...
Page 109 - Exhort servants to be obedient unto their own masters, and to please them well in all things ; not answering again ; not purloining, but shewing all good fidelity; that they may adorn the doctrine of God our Saviour in all things.
Page 22 - 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 46 - There the wicked cease from troubling; and there the weary be at rest. There the prisoners rest together; they hear not the voice of the oppressor. The small and great are there; and the servant is free from his master.
Bibliographic information
| Title | The Testimony of God Against Slavery: A Collection of Passages from the Bible : which Show the Sin of Holding and Treating the Human Species as Property : with Notes : to which is Added the Testimony of the Civilized World Against Slavery Religion and the law Slavery in America and the world: history, culture & law Issue 1 of The Testimony of God Against Slavery: A Collection of Passages from the Bible, which Show the Sin of Holding and Treating the Human Species as Property : With Notes : To which is Added the Testimony of the Civilized World Against Slavery, La Roy Sunderland |
| Author | La Roy Sunderland |
| Compiled by | La Roy Sunderland |
| Edition | 2 |
| Publisher | I. Knapp, 1836 |
| Original from | Harvard University |
| Digitized | 17 Sep 2007 |
| Length | 177 pages |
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