| Julius Rubens Ames - 1839 - 160 pages
...faith of our Lord Jesus Christ, while you continue in this traffic! THOMAS SCOTT. Exodus xxi, 16. — "He that stealeth a man, and selleth him, or if he...found in his hands, he shall surely be put to death." Stealing a man in order to sell him for a slave, whether the thief had actually sold him, or whether... | |
| La Roy Sunderland - 1839 - 154 pages
...of God. Wo have further evidence that God did not intend to sanction slavery. It was a standing law, that "He that stealeth a man and selleth him, or if he be found in his hand, he shall surely be put to death." Another standing law of Israel was this : " Thou shalt not... | |
| Gardiner Spring - 1839 - 432 pages
...principles, it forbids the slave trade, or the seizing of those who are free and selling them as slaves. "He that stealeth a man and selleth him, or if he be found in his hand, he shall surely be put to death." This is the deliberate judgment of the divine mind in relation... | |
| Thomas Baldwin Thayer - 1840 - 198 pages
...ii. 14; Gen. xv. 3. xvii. 23). There was a law respecting the stealing of slaves to this effect : " He that stealeth a man, and selleth him, or if he be found in his hand, he shall surely be put to death." Exod. xxi. 16. 7. Gentile slaves might be kept in continual... | |
| James Duncan - 1840 - 150 pages
...theft, and the wilful possession of an article stolen, either as to goods or persons, Exodus, xxi. 16. He that stealeth a man and selleth him, or if he be found in his hand, shall surely be put to death." If all men are naturally free who have not forfeited their right... | |
| William Evans, Thomas Evans - 1840 - 500 pages
...who unjustly deprived men of it, were to be punished in like manner as if they had murdered them. " He that stealeth a man, and selleth him ; or if he be found in his hand, shall surely be put to death." This part of the law was so considerable, that Paul the learned... | |
| John Woolman - 1840 - 364 pages
...unjustly deprived men of it, were to be punishes like manner as if they had murdered them. " And he stealeth a man, and selleth him, or if he be found in his hi shall surely be put to death." Exodus xxi. 16. This irt of the hw was so considerable, that Paul... | |
| 1840 - 870 pages
...he that smiteth his father, or his mother, shall be surely put to death. 16 *| And he that slealeth st, and did bake unleavened bread, and they did hand, he shall •urely be put to death. 17 fl And he that curseth his father or his mother, shall... | |
| John Woolman - 1840 - 364 pages
...deprived men of it, were to be punished in like manner as if they had murdered them. "And he that stealelh a man, and selleth him, or if he be found in his hand. . he shall surely be put to death." Exodus xxi. 16. This part of the law was so considerable,... | |
| George Barrell Cheever - 1842 - 166 pages
...hardened offender, overlooking * Save one ; the iniquitous invasion and assumption of property in man. " He that stealeth a man and selleth him, or if he be...found in his hands, he shall surely be put to death." Ex. 21: 16. the multitude who suffer, boldly engages in some desperate attempt to relieve his wants... | |
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