Scriptural Researches on the Licitness of the Slave-trade: Shewing Its Conformity with the Principles of Natural & Revealed Religion, Delineated in the Sacred Writings of the Word of God |
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Abraham Abram abuſes advocates for African African Liberty Almighty alſo arguments becauſe Bilhah bleſs bleſſings bondage Children of Ifrael Chriſt Chriſtian CHRO circumſtance conduct conſequence Decifions declared Diſpenſation Egyptians eſpecially eſſentially Eſtates facred laws faid fame favour fellow-creatures filence firſt fome fuch Gibeon Hagar Hivite holy houſe humanity illicitneſs inſpired Writers inſtance intereſting intrinfic licitneſs itſelf Joſeph juſt and lawful land of Egypt laſt Law of Nature leaſt leſs Lord malepractices Maſter Miſtreſs Mofaic muſt neceſſarily obſerve Oneſimus oppoſite perſon Pharaoh Philemon poſitive poſitive ſanction preſent preſent Controversy principles profecution purchaſe purpoſe purſuit reaſon regiſtered Religion repreſented Reſearches reſpecting Sacred Writings ſaid unto ſame Sarai ſays ſeems ſenſe ſervants ſervice ſeven ſeveral ſhall ſhe Shechem ſhew ſhould SLAVE-TRADE Slaves ſo many millions ſome ſon ſpeaking ſtate ſtrength ſtricteſt ſtyle ſubject ſuch ſuppoſed Testament thee theſe thoſe Trade tranſaction tranſported triarch uſe utmoſt viſible whoſe wife Written Word
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Page 19 - Wherefore shall we die before thine eyes, both we and our land ? buy us and our land for bread, and we and our land will be servants unto Pharaoh: and give us seed, that we may live, and not die, that the land be not desolate.
Page 12 - And Sarai Abram's wife took Hagar her maid the Egyptian, after Abram had dwelt ten years in the land of Canaan, and gave her to her husband Abram to be his wife.
Page 18 - And Joseph gathered up all the money that was found in the land of Egypt, and in the land of Canaan, for the corn which they bought: and Joseph brought the money into Pharaoh's house.
Page 28 - I Paul have written it with mine own hand, I will repay it: albeit I do not say to thee how thou owest unto me even thine own self besides.
Page 28 - And they that have believing mafters, let them not defpife them, becaufe they are brethren : but rather do them fervice, becaufe they are faithful and beloved, partakers of the benefit. Thefe things teach and exhort. 3 If any man teach otherwife, and confent not to wholfome words, even the words of our Lord Jefus Chrift, and to the doctrine which is according to godlinefs; 4 He is proud, knowing nothing, but doting about queftions and ftrifes of words, whereof cometh envy, ftrife.
Page 26 - 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 your brethren the children of Israel, ye shall not rule one over another with rigour.
Page 19 - And it shall come to pass in the increase, that ye shall give the fifth part unto Pharaoh, and four parts shall be your own, for seed of the field, and for your food, and for them of your households, and for food for your little ones.
Page 19 - Only the land of the priests bought he not; for the priests had a portion assigned them of Pharaoh, and did eat their portion which Pharaoh gave them: wherefore they sold not their lands.
Page 12 - My wrong be upon thee : I have given my maid into thy bosom ; and when she saw that she had conceived, I was despised in her eyes : the LORD judge between me and thee. 6 But Abram said unto Sarai, Behold, thy maid is in thy hand ; do to her as it pleaseth thee.
Page 29 - And these bottles of wine, which we filled, were new; and, behold, they be rent: and these our garments and our shoes are become old by reason of the very long journey.