| James Grahame - English poetry - 1807 - 250 pages
...where is the authority for any thing like the slave-trade ? Is it in the following express law ? " And he that stealeth a man, and selleth him, or if he be found in his hand, he shall surely be put te death." — EXOD. xxi. 16. Extracts from the Parliamentary Register... | |
| Thomas Clarkson - Abolitionists - 1808 - 598 pages
...the promoting of man-stealing, the only theft which by the Mosaic law was punished with death ;—' He that stealeth a man, and selleth him ; or if he be found in his hand, he shall surely be put to death.' " The characteristic and badge of 4 true Christian is love... | |
| Johannes van der Kemp - Heidelberger Katechismus - 1810 - 572 pages
...15. The Lord God required that such thieves should be punished with death: he saith, Exod. xxi. 16, " He that stealeth a man and selleth him, or if he be found in his hand, shall surely be put to death." See also Dcut. xxiv. 7, and 1 Tim i, 10. But since we do not buy... | |
| Francis Gastrell - Bible - 1812 - 378 pages
...the dowry of virgins. Stealing. (r) Thou shalt not steal. (1) Thou shalt not rob thy neighbour. (t) He that stealeth a man, and selleth him ; or if he be found in his hand, he shall surely be put to death. («) If a man shall steal an ox or a sheep, and kill it, or... | |
| Abraham Booth - Theology - 1813 - 452 pages
...unite, if not debauched by avarice, or blunted by habit, in approving this law of Jehovah as just: He that stealeth a man and selleth him, or if he be found in his hand, he shall surely be put to death. Nor is there a man upon earth, not even among those who are... | |
| Missions - 1847 - 760 pages
...understand by slavery was strictly forbidden by the laws of Moses, Exod. ixi. 16 : " And he thatstealeth a man, and selleth him; or, if he be found in his hand, he shall surely be put to death." The chapter, from which we have cited a passage, puts in striking... | |
| African Institution (London, England) - Black people - 1815 - 172 pages
...punish* ed such crimes capitally; and it was to be found in Holy Scripture, in the book of E?odus, " That he that stealeth a man and selleth him, or if he be found in his hand, shall surely be put to death." In a word, to deprive a fellow, creature of his liberty, and to... | |
| Fore-edge painting - 1815 - 706 pages
...he may die. . 15 And he that smiteth his father, or his mother, shall be surely put to death. 16 And he that stealeth a man, and selleth him, or if he be found in his hand, he shall surely be put to death. 17 And he that curseth his father, or his mother, shall surely... | |
| Mathew Carey - Political parties - 1817 - 476 pages
...enormity of this high-handed offence, against which the Levitical law pronounced sentence of death: — " He that stealeth a man — and selleth him — or if he be found in his hand, he shall be put to death." It is painful to state — but it is my duty to state to the world... | |
| Bible - 1819 - 948 pages
...may die. 16 And he that smitetb his father, or his mother, shall be surely put to death. 16 IT And 4 hand, he shall surely be put to d«Kith. 17 IT And he that curseth his father 01 his mother, shall... | |
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