A Scriptural, Ecclesiastical, And Historical View of Slavery: From the Days ...
A Scriptural, Ecclesiastical, And Historical View of Slavery: From the Days ...
John Henry Hopkins, Alonzo Potter
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"Slaves made in war." (Deut 20 : 14.) " Thus, all the divines of the Roman Catholic Church acknowledge that Ibey find, in tbe divine legislation for the Hebrew people, the recognition of slavery, and the enactment of provisions for its regu- lation." (Letter 2, 122.) "The divine legislator of Christianity," saith Bishop England, '* made no special law, either to repeal or to modify the former and still eubmting rights but He enforced principles which produced an extensive amelioration. Neither ...did the apostles consider the Christ- ian master obliged to liberate his Christian servant St Paul, in his epistle to Philemon, acknowledges the right of the master to the ser- vices of his slave. Thus a runaway slave still belonged to his mas- ter, and though having become a Christian, so far from being thereby liberated from service, he was bound to return thereto, and submit himself to his owner. In the same manner that St Paul sent One- simus, did the angel send Hagar." (Glen. 16 : 6-9.) (Letter 8, p.
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