| David Humphreys - 1730 - 404 էջ
...-it may be very truly rep Thar Chriftianity, and the embracing of the Gofpel, does not make the leaft Alteration in Civil Property, or in any of the Duties which belong to Civil Relations ; but in all thefe Refpedts, it continues Perfons juft in the fame State as it found them. The Freedom... | |
| Frederick Dalcho - 1820 - 634 էջ
...Christians, only makes them less diligent, and more ungovernable. To which it may be very truly replied, 'That Christianity, and the embracing of the Gospel,...any of the Duties which belong to Civil Relations ; but in all these Respects, it continues Persons just in the same State as it found them. The freedom... | |
| Frederick Dalcho - 1820 - 664 էջ
...Christians, only makes them less diligent, and more ungovernable. To which it may be very truly replied, That Christianity, and the embracing of the Gospel,...any of the Duties which belong to Civil Relations ; but in all these Respects, it continues Persons just in the same State as it found them. The freedom... | |
| Charles Colcock Jones - 1842 - 306 էջ
...Christians, only makes them less diligent and more ungovernable. To which it may be very truly replied, that Christianity and the embracing of the Gospel...any of the duties which belong to civil relations; but in all these respects, it continues persons just in the same state as it found them. The freedom... | |
| George Bancroft - 1853 - 520 էջ
...species, having no right to be instructed." In like manner, Gibson, the bishop of London, declared that "Christianity and the embracing of the gospel...not make the least alteration in civil property;" while he besought the masters to regard the negroes " not barely as slaves, but as men-slaves and women-slaves,... | |
| James Bowden - 1854 - 426 էջ
...find the Bishop of London lending his aid to bind the fetters of the enslaved African, and declaring that " Christianity and the embracing of the gospel...not make the least alteration in civil property." It surely then, would have been no marvel if, under the prevailing influence of things around them,... | |
| james bowden - 1854 - 428 էջ
...find the Bishop of London lending his aid to bind the fetters of the enslaved African, and declaring that " Christianity and the embracing of the gospel...not make the least alteration in civil property." It surely then, would have been no marvel if, under the prevailing influence of things around them,... | |
| Thomas Read Rootes Cobb - 1858 - 296 էջ
...proposition was legally untrue ; while the declaration of Gibson, the Bishop of London, about the same time, that " Christianity and the embracing of the Gospel...not make the least alteration in civil property," quieted their consciences as to the moral question. To make " assurance doubly sure," however, the... | |
| Thomas Read Rootes Cobb - 1858 - 612 էջ
...proposition was legally untrue ; while the declaration of Gibson, the Bishop of London, about the same time, that " Christianity and the embracing of the Gospel...not make the least alteration in civil property," quieted their consciences as to the moral question. To make "assurance doubly sure," however, the Legislature... | |
| George Bancroft - 1855 - 516 էջ
...species, having no right to be instructed." In ' like manner, Gibson, the Bishop of London, declared that " Christianity and the embracing of the gospel...not make the least alteration in civil property;" while he besought the masters to regard the negroes " not barely as slaves, but as men-slaves and women-slaves,... | |
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