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... light , Which Nature sheds through her expanded spheres . But when with Gospel - day this light combines , The Fool who doubts , who asks for clearer proof Must hood - wink'd be indeed , and darkness love . That such resistless evidence ...
... light , Which Nature sheds through her expanded spheres . But when with Gospel - day this light combines , The Fool who doubts , who asks for clearer proof Must hood - wink'd be indeed , and darkness love . That such resistless evidence ...
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... light ; or who endeavours so to commingle them , that no difference is discernible between the requisitions of religion and the solicitations of vice . No desire is felt to propitiate professing Christians , while they steal " souls and ...
... light ; or who endeavours so to commingle them , that no difference is discernible between the requisitions of religion and the solicitations of vice . No desire is felt to propitiate professing Christians , while they steal " souls and ...
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... light , than by a dispassionate review of the multifarious artifices which are adopted to veil the horrors of slavery , and the evasions by which the charge that they are the most enormous sinners against God and man , is repelled . Had ...
... light , than by a dispassionate review of the multifarious artifices which are adopted to veil the horrors of slavery , and the evasions by which the charge that they are the most enormous sinners against God and man , is repelled . Had ...
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... by an avaricious , dissipated extinction of feeling ; and of religious fear , which has been extermina- ted from his heart , by his deliberate rejection of the light to life , and by his obduracy in opposing " PICTURE OF SLAVERY . 25.
... by an avaricious , dissipated extinction of feeling ; and of religious fear , which has been extermina- ted from his heart , by his deliberate rejection of the light to life , and by his obduracy in opposing " PICTURE OF SLAVERY . 25.
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... light , and the soul of the peace which Chris- tianity was revealed to bestow . Hence , as slavery una- voidably extinguishes all religion in those who are made wretched by its sway over them , the jurisdiction which is claimed and ...
... light , and the soul of the peace which Chris- tianity was revealed to bestow . Hence , as slavery una- voidably extinguishes all religion in those who are made wretched by its sway over them , the jurisdiction which is claimed and ...
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Page 46 - For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who hold the truth in unrighteousness; Because that which may be known of God is manifest in them; for God hath shewed it unto them.
Page 21 - We hold these truths to be self evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.
Page 22 - That all men are by nature equally free and independent, and have certain inherent rights, of which, when they enter into a state of society, they cannot by any compact deprive or divest their posterity; namely, the enjoyment of life and liberty, with the means of acquiring and possessing property, and pursuing and obtaining happiness and safety.
Page 73 - I am the Lord thy God, who brought thee out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage.
Page 17 - And he that stealeth a man, and selleth him, or if he be found in his hand, he shall surely be put to death.
Page 48 - 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.
Page 82 - There is a law above all the enactments of human codes— the same throughout the world, the same in all times — such as it was...
Page 195 - There is only one condition previously required of those who desire admission into these societies, "a desire to flee from the wrath to come, and to be saved from their sins.
Page 62 - This is the condemnation, that light is come into the world, and men love darkness rather than light, because their deeds are evil.
Page 13 - If any man teach otherwise, and consent not to wholesome words, even the words of our Lord Jesus Christ, and to the doctrine which is according to godliness ; he is proud, knowing nothing, but doting about questions and strifes of words, whereof cometh envy, strife, railings, evil surmisings, perverse disputings of men of corrupt minds, and destitute of the truth, supposing that gain is godliness : from such withdraw thyself.