The American Citizen: A Discourse on the Nature and Extent of Our Religious Subjection to the Government Under which We Live: Including an Inquiry Into the Scriptural Authority of that Provision of the Constitution of the United States, which Requires the Surrender of Fugitive SlavesC. Scribner, 1851 - 40 páginas |
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... counsels of wisdom and amity have prevailed , so that , we meet this day , with stronger affection than ever toward the union of these States , and with firmer hopes of the permanency and salutary operation of those great provisions of ...
... counsels of wisdom and amity have prevailed , so that , we meet this day , with stronger affection than ever toward the union of these States , and with firmer hopes of the permanency and salutary operation of those great provisions of ...
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... counsel others to offer such resistance either for their own defence or that of anybody else ? They did none of these things . They looked to the law for redress ; and when it gave them no redress , they bore what the law inflicted ...
... counsel others to offer such resistance either for their own defence or that of anybody else ? They did none of these things . They looked to the law for redress ; and when it gave them no redress , they bore what the law inflicted ...
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... counsels which have been given , in our own day , by men professing godli- ness ! Much has been said , and well said , of late , respecting the right of the people , under certain circumstances , to revolutionize or overthrow a ...
... counsels which have been given , in our own day , by men professing godli- ness ! Much has been said , and well said , of late , respecting the right of the people , under certain circumstances , to revolutionize or overthrow a ...
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... counsels which have openly inculcated resistance with violence and bloodshed ; and be- cause farther , the opposition to this law goes be- yond it , to assail the provision in the constitution which it was enacted to carry into effect ...
... counsels which have openly inculcated resistance with violence and bloodshed ; and be- cause farther , the opposition to this law goes be- yond it , to assail the provision in the constitution which it was enacted to carry into effect ...
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... counsels to the slaves of their day ? How do these things look when they are laid alongside of the actual advice and injunctions which they gave ? And yet , with the Bible in our hands , with its express , specific legislation upon this ...
... counsels to the slaves of their day ? How do these things look when they are laid alongside of the actual advice and injunctions which they gave ? And yet , with the Bible in our hands , with its express , specific legislation upon this ...
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Página 2 - HE that goeth about to persuade a multitude, that they are not so well governed as they ought to be, shall never want attentive and favourable hearers ; because they know the manifold defects whereunto every kind of regiment is subject, but the secret lets and difficulties, which in public proceedings are innumerable and inevitable, they have not ordinarily the judgment to consider.
Página 7 - For what nation is there so great, who hath God so nigh unto them, as the Lord our God is in all things that we call upon him for?
Página 20 - Wherefore that here we may briefly end: of law there can be no less acknowledged, than that her seat is the bosom of God, her voice the harmony of the world...
Página 13 - For rulers are not a terror to good works, but to the evil. Wilt thou then not be afraid of the power ? do that which is good, and thou shalt have praise of the same: for he is the minister of God to thee for good.
Página 2 - ... under this fair and plausible colour, whatsoever they utter passeth for good and current. That which wanteth in the weight of their speech, is supplied by the aptness of men's minds to accept and believe it. Whereas, on the other side, if we maintain things that are established, we have not only to strive with a number of heavy prejudices, deeply rooted in the hearts of men, who think that herein we serve the time, and speak in favour of the present state, because thereby we either hold or seek...
Página 11 - Put them in mind to be subject to principalities and powers, to obey magistrates, to be ready to every good work.
Página 33 - Both thy bondmen, and thy bondmaids, which thou shalt have, shall be of the heathen that are round about you ; of them shall ye buy bondmen and bondmaids. Moreover of the children of the strangers that do sojourn among you, of them shall ye buy, and of their families that are with you, which they begat in your land : and they shall be your possession. And ye shall take them as an inheritance for your children after you, to inherit them for a possession; they shall be your bondmen for ever: but over...
Página 12 - 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.
Página 13 - For he is the minister of God to thee for good. But if thou do that which is evil, be afraid; for he beareth not the sword in vain: for he is the minister of God, a revenger to execute wrath upon him that doeth evil. Wherefore ye must needs be subject, not only for wrath, but also for conscience sake.
Página 13 - Let every soul be subject unto the higher powers. For there is no power but of God: the powers that be are ordained of God. Whosoever, therefore, resisteth the power, resisteth the ordinance of God: and they that resist shall receive to themselves damnation. For rulers are not a terror to good works, but to the evil.