The American Churches the Bulwarks of American Slavery volume 2
The American Churches the Bulwarks of American Slavery volume 2
James Gillespie Birney
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Two mules, one horse and an old wagon. " THE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH. (350, 000 Members. ) In 1793, the General Assembly, not very long after it was organised, adopted the "judgment" of the New York and Philadelphia Synods, in favor of " universal liberty. " In 1794, it adopted the following as a note to the eighth commandment, as expressing the doctrine of the church on slaveholding : — " 1 Tim. I. 10. The law is made for man-stealers. This crime among the Jews exposed the peipetralors of it to ca...pital punishment; Exodus xxi. 15; and the apostle here classes them with sinneis of the first rank. The woid he uses, in its original import, comprehends all who are concerned in bringing any of the human race into sla- very, or in retaining them in it. Hominum fares, qui servos vel liberos abducunt, rttinent, vendunt, vel emunt. Stealers of men are all those who bring off slaves or freemen, and keep, sell, or BUY THEM. To steal a freeman, says Grotius, is the highest kind 29 of theft. In other instances, we only steal human property, but when we steal, or retain men in slavery, we seize those who, in common with ourselves, are constituted by the original grant lords of the earth.
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