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Wilson Armistead
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LONDON.
W. & E. Cash, 5 Bishopsgate St.
William Tweedie  337 Strand,
and may be had of all 'booksellers.
1858
 

Leeds Anti-slavery Series, No. 55

THE BIBLE AGAINST SLAVERY

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THE spirit of slavery never seeks refuge in the Bible of its own accord.  The horns of the altar are its last resort - seized only in desperation, as it rushes from the terror of the avenger's arm.  Like other unclean spirits, it "hateth the light, neither cometh to the light, lest its deeds should be reproved."  Goaded to frenzy, in its conflicts with conscience and common sense, denied all quarter, and hunted from every covert, it vaults over the sacred inclosure, and courses up and down the Bible, "seeking rest and finding none."  THE LAW OF LOVE, glowing on every page, flashes around it an omnipresent anguish and despair.  It shrinks from the hated light, and howls under the consuming torch, as demons quailed before the Son of God, and shrieked, "Torment us not."  At last it slinks away under the types of the Mosaic system, and seeks to burrow out of sight among their shadows.  Vain hope!  Its asylum is its sepulchre; its city of refuge, the city of destruction.  It flies from light into the sun, from heat into devouring fire; and from the voice of God into the thickness of His thunders. - Weld.
     "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; 1 Tim. i. 9, 10.
     "Woe unto him that buildeth his house by unrighteousness, and his chambers by wrong; that useth his neighbour's service without wages, and giveth him not for his work." - Jer. xxii. 13; James v. 1-5.
     "Therefore all things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them; for this is the law and the prophets." - Jesus Christ.
     God "hath sent me to bind up the broken-hearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives." - Jesus Christ.


Leeds Anti-slavery Series. No. 55.
Sold by W. and F. G. CASH, 5, Bishopsgate Street, London; and by JANE JOWETT, Friends' Meeting Yard, Leeds, at 1s. 2. per 100.
 

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