| Slavery - 1828 - 390 pages
...history, is recollected. £33 deserves the name of slavery, could have been found among that people. " He that stealeth a man and selleth him, or if he be found in his hand, he shall surely be put to death." Ex. xxi. 16. Stealing has ever been a common mode of bringing... | |
| Zachary Macaulay - Antislavery movements - 1831 - 592 pages
...law of slavery as it existed amongst the Jews, we find it in the 21st Exodus, chap. 16 : — " And he that stealeth a man and selleth him, or if he be found in his pound, he shall surely be put to death." The moral law of Heaven is for all. (Hear, hear.) Having now... | |
| Benjamin Godwin - Slavery - 1830 - 254 pages
...planters have for slavery.—But are they willing to abide by the regulations of the Mosaic institutes ? " He that stealeth a man and selleth him, or if he be found in his hand, he shall surely be put to death *." The sabbath breaker listened to death : if this law were... | |
| 1830 - 862 pages
...of Great Britain did not imitate the Jewish law, by which it waa laid down, that " he that stealelh a man and selleth him, or if he be found in his hand, he shall surely be put to death." By what principle, he would ask, of right— he would not put... | |
| Zachary Macaulay - Antislavery movements - 1831 - 592 pages
...the Legislature of Great Britain did not imitate the Jewish law, by which it was laid down, that " he that stealeth a man and selleth him, or if he be found in his hand, he shall surely be put to death." By what principle, he would ask, of right — he would not... | |
| Bourne Hall Draper - Bible - 1831 - 296 pages
...of which they could make a profit. To buy or to sell a man is expressly contrary to God's command, ' 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; and yet we know they traded in slaves." " Tyre... | |
| Samuel Drew - 1831 - 658 pages
...Testament, instead of sanctioning, denounces West India slavery, and dooms its abettors to death. " 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. But West India slaves have been stolen, and... | |
| Bible - 1831 - 930 pages
...die. 15 1i And he that smitcth his father, or his mother, shall be surely put to death. 16 1i And lie t not spoiled ; and dealest treacherously, hand, he shall surely be put to death. 17 H Ami he that curscth his father or his mother, shall surely... | |
| Charles Lambert Coghlan - 1832 - 486 pages
...to the Ishmeelites for twenty pieces of silver : and they brought Joseph into Egypt. Ge. xxxvii. 28. He that stealeth a man and selleth him, or if he be found in his hand, he shall surely be put to death. Ex. xxi. 16. If a man be found stealing any of his brethren... | |
| Joseph Ivimey - Antislavery movements - 1832 - 96 pages
...prevented the * Edwards's History of the West Indies, vol. ii. 34. flowing of oceans of human blood, " He that stealeth a man, and selleth him, or if he be found in his hand, he shall surely be put to death." Edwards says, " Of the English, the first who is known to have... | |
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