Scriptural and Ancient Servitude
by E. Smith
Format: Paperback
ISBN13: 9780217045346
Paperback|9780217045346
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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER I. BIBLE SERVITUDE, As Addbess Delivered In The Sixth Presbytebias Ciiukch, Cincinnati, 0., March 19m, 1843. Revised and Enlarged. Love worketh no ill to his neighbor: therefore love is the fulfilling of the law.?Romans xiii. 10. Much has been said, and much written, of man's accountability; but when all is said that can be, for or against, it amounts to this: the Creator has implanted in the heart of every human being a consciousness of his accountability. There is in the rnind of every man a living conviction that he is an accountable creature, and must answer for his conduct to some superior being. This is the fact with all savage as well as civilized men. This conviction fans the flame of all idolatrous altar fires?inflames the zeal of all the worshipers of strange gods. The Scriptures reveal the nature of this accountability, ? the great objects to be secured; and also the nature design of the moral government of God. /j I have selected this text, 1st, to call attention to one great object of the divine government, ?the great object; and to show that slavery is wholly irreconcilable to this object?to that government. And 2nd, to examine those passages of the Holy Scriptures which are thought by some persons to favor slavery. 1 All intelligent beings act from motives; they havo design in all they do. The great Jehovah is the perfection of all intelligence, and exhibits perfect design in all Ijis works. Ho had design in his divine legislation, and we now inquire what that design was? what was the great object of establishing the moral government of the Universe. Some contend it was to secure the honor or dignity of the throne of God ?the rights of divine sovereignty. This is hard to maintain, because Jehovah is immutable; he cannot change; his righta...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217045346 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217045340 |
| Weight | 0.47 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.32 In |
| List Price | $14.14 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 136 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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