The Abolition Cause Eventually Triumphant: A Sermon, Delivered Before the Anti-Slavery Society of Haverhill, Mass., Aug. 1836Gould and Newman, 1836 - 24 pagina's |
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The Abolition Cause Eventually Triumphant: A Sermon, Delivered Before the ... David Root Volledige weergave - 1836 |
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Pagina 19 - For this people's heart is waxed gross, and their ears are dull of hearing, and their eyes they have closed; lest at. any time they should see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and should understand with their heart, and should be converted, and I should heal them.
Pagina 3 - And I will come near to you to judgment ; and I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, and against the adulterers, and against false swearers, and against those that oppress the hireling in his wages, the widow, and the fatherless, and that turn aside the stranger from his right, and fear not me, saith the Lord of hosts.
Pagina 3 - Thus saith the Lord of Hosts; The children of Israel and the children of Judah were oppressed together: and all that took them captives held them fast; they refused to let them go. Their Redeemer is strong; the Lord of Hosts is his name: he shall throughly plead their cause, that he may give rest to the land, and disquiet the inhabitants of Babylon.
Pagina 3 - And cinnamon and odours, and ointments, and frankincense, and wine, and oil, and fine flour, and wheat, and beasts, and sheep, and horses, and chariots, and slaves, and souls of men.
Pagina 3 - And the merchants of the earth shall weep and mourn over her; for no man buyeth their merchandise any more; the merchandise of gold, and silver, and precious stones, and of pearls, and fine linen, and purple, and silk...
Pagina 15 - Christian doctrine taught us to do unto others as we would that others should do unto us.
Pagina 8 - Their principles led them to wage war against their oppressors, and to spill human blood like water, in order to be free. Ours forbid the doing of evil that good may come, and lead us to reject, and to entreat the oppressed to reject, the use of all carnal weapons for deliverance from bondage relying solely upon those which are spiritual, and mighty through God to the pulling down of strongholds.
Pagina 19 - ... they may deem best ? He has no more placed the Bible under your control, or that of your church, than he has the sun in heaven, or the vital air. Nor can I conceive of any principle that can possibly induce you to withhold it from the people, without gloss or comment, save one : " Every one that doeth evil hateth the light, neither cometh to light, lest his deeds should be reproved.
Pagina 2 - In conformity with the above vote, as well as the dictates of our feelings, the undersigned respectfully request for publication a copy of your Address delivered in this town on the 2nd inst.
Pagina 2 - HAVERIIILL, 10th 8th mo. 1836. At a special meeting of the Haverhill Anti-Slavery Society, held on the 2nd inst., after the Address of Rev. David Root, on motion of Hon.