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This historic book may have numerous typos, missing text or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1836. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... LETTER XIII. DEAR BROTHER: I shall now present to your consideration several passages of the sacred scriptures which I believe to be decidedly opposed to the kind of slavery which exists in our slaveholding states. The first I shall invite you to consider is a prediction found in Gen. 15:14. 4 That nation whom they shall serve, will I judge, and afterward shall they come out with great substance.' This prediction relates to the slavery which the Egyptians inflicted upon the descendants of Abraham. And for such infliction God said he would judge them ; but if it be not unjust to enslave our fellow men, why did the Almighty denounce sentence of judgment against the Egyptians for enslaving the nation of Israel? And why did he execute that sentence by inflicting upon them ten most desolating plagues ? What were the disgusting plagues of bloody fountains, croakirrg frogs, loathsome and devouring insects, and horrible diseases, but so many different emblems of the divine abhorrence of the crime of inflicting slavery upon an innocent nation ? What were the plagues of massy hail-stones, terrific fire, and tremendous thunder, of horrible darkness, and of the destroying angel, the messenger of sudden death to all the first born of Egypt, but the emblems of divine indignation against the injustice of slavery? Surely the various punishments inflicted upon the Egyptians for enslaving the Israelites are so many demonstrations that the practice of slavery is a crime of the greatest magnitude, and as such highly offensive to Jehovah. The great substance which the prediction awarded to the nation of Israel is likewise a striking demonstration of the injustice of enslaving the human species. The Egyptians did not escape wilh. merely suffering severe inflictions of punishment ; bu...
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- PublisherGreenwood Press,London
- ISBN 10 0837129087
- ISBN 13 9780837129082
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages122
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