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But this will not do, God will certainly punish you for stealing and for being unfaithful.
The Bible is a revelation of the mind and will of God to men. Therein we may learn, what God is.
If we should ever get to Heaven, we shall find nobody to reproach us for being black, or for being slaves.
Besides all this, if you are idle, and take to bad courses, you will hurt those of your brethren who are slaves, and do all in your power to prevent... →
It is very wicked for you not to take care of your masters goods, but how much worse is it to pilfer and steal from them, whenever you think you... →
Now the Bible tells us that we are all by nature, sinners, that we are slaves to sin and Satan, and that unless we are converted, or born again, we... →
Let all the time you can get be spent in trying to learn to read.
If there was no Bible, it would be no matter whether you could read or not. Reading other books would do you no good.
He will bring us all, rich and poor, white and black, to his judgment seat.
We cannot certainly, have any excuse either for taking any thing that belongs to our masters without their leave, or for being unfaithful in their... →
You know that murder is wicked. If you saw your master kill a man, do you suppose this would be any excuse for you, if you should commit the same... →
Good servants frequently make good masters.
That liberty is a great thing we may know from our own feelings, and we may likewise judge so from the conduct of the white-people, in the late war.
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