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THOUGH pie fabjed of Negro Slavery
I. has of late been much treated on, the evil
nature of it in itfelf, and in its cbnfequences, been
ihown at a conf.derabk length, yet I apprehend
the cootroverfy 'has not yet been fully brought
to the bar of God's Word, and the determinati
ons df the BleiTed Spirit (peaking in the scripture
properly attended to; I ihall endeavour, therefore,
in tty sequel, to investigate this fubje& in the light
of Divine revelation, which is the Supreme rule of
deciding controversies among Protestants.
The point to be considered is precisely this :
Whether bringing the Negroes from Africa, and put
t??g them into perpetual bondage in another country,
be repugnant to the genius of Christ ianity, or not ?
We take the affirmative of this question, and ihall
support it by the following reasons.
It is contrary to the krw of Nature, whose pre
cepts no way clafli with Divine revelation. For
a freeman to be hurried away from his own coun
try—tore from the embraces of his kindred and
acquaintance, and condemned to spend the re
mainder of life under a load of chains in a distant
clime, is a flagrant transgression of the law of na
ture. It would weaken scripture authority did it
support what the law of nature condemns: There
fore let us proceed to what is written in our Bible
concerning it, with all possible brevity.
Though it is generally said that the Mosaic law
favours Negro slavery, hear this striking parage,
Exodus xxxi, 16. " He that fleatetb a man and
fellelh him, or be be found in bis bands, he frail
furcly bput to death."
This law made no diftin&ion between brother
or stranger, that is stolen. Whoever was con
victed of this crime, was to undergo a capital pu
-niihment; because, depriving a man of his liberty
is next to depriving him of his life. True it may
be replied, that the Negroes are lawfully pur
chased in Africa of those nations who have taken
them prisoners of war. But it is too well known,
that trifles are given for the purchase; and that
nations are excited, for the fake of toys and bau
bles, to go and steal their neighbours, and Chris
tians become the receivers. " Tell it not in Gatb,
publijh it not m the flreels of Hfkelenf that pro
feffors of the name of Jesus are become partners
in theft with Pagans. “ Wbofo is partner oxith a
thief batetb bis own foul." The law of our coun
try makes the receiver of stolen goods, knowing
them to be so, to be equally guilty with him who
Hole them. The atrocity of Healing must be great
ly heightened by the value of what is stolen : Can
_any kind of theft equal man-stealing ? The thief
takes but part of our property, but this, like the
grave, lays faft hold on person and property, li
berty, and every thing that makes this world de-
Hrable. And as the African trade has a tendency
to excite these blinded nations to war with one
another, in order to get prisoners to fell, it must
involve those concerned in it in the guilt of that
innocent blood which is died in those unhallowed
wars.
This pra&ice is contrary to what is written in
the New TeHament : Let us hear with solemnity
the words of Jesus Christ, our great lawgiver,
Mat. vii, 12. Therefore all things wbatfoever ye
would that men foould do to you, do ye even so to
them, for this is the law and the prophets, This
golden rule of equity so pleased Alexander Se
verus, the Emperor, though a heathen, that he
often quoted it in giving judgment ; honoured
Christ and favoured Christians for the fake of it ;
yea, had it inferibed on the walls of his closet,
" °uod vis tibi fieri, sac alters' By this rule we
are not to do to others as they would do to us
were we in their power, but we must pur ourselves
in the place of others, and then confider what we
would desire to be done to us. Will stealing and
enslaving our fellow men Hand the test of this rule ?
No ; the practice must fall before it like Dagon
before the ark, Our Lord tells us thatthis is not
a new rule, for it is “ the law and the prophets."
It is the sum and substance of what is written in
the law and the prophets, concerning the duty we
owe to our neighbour. This golden rule com
mends the do&rine of Christ, but condemns the
practice of chriftians. " Hut hoc non evangelium,
aut bi non evangelici." —Agreeable to this muff be
the whole Hrain of the New Testament. The
Apostle Paul puts the perpetrators of this crime
bin the heart of a very black lift, I Tim. i, 9, 10.
r' Murderers of fathers and murderers of mothers
■—manflayers—whoremongers—them that defile
Ltfelres with mankind—man stealers—liars
—perfyns."
But.it is time to obviate what may be objected
it has ^cn advanced. Some may reply, that
the Negroes being heathens, why may we not
bringthem out of their own county into this land
light? But is this the pious motive the Afri
can traders me actuated by? Or is it not rather
the fame; with Demetrius, “ By this craft we bare
our wealth." =oc^ Christianity allow us to break
the laws of morally in order to advance its inte
rests? Did Christ and his Apostles take this me
-Rom. iii, X. find not rather (as we be
flahderoufyreport\d, and as feme affirm that wefay )
let us do evil tbui go d may c@me, whose damnation
Such {way of propagating divine know
ledge may p£s|urrent among Jesuits, but not
found Protruants. "Though it be true that
many of,t^coor Africans have been brought to
tile knbygine of Chrub, in their bondage, yet
that will xrorfanaify the .a&ion. It did not juf
of Jofah's brethren in felling
' ' nt ° Egypt, that Providence over-I
preservation of his father's fa
the days of famine. Nor will it vindicate
■ Jews in crucifying the Lord of glory, that his
rat is productive of the most blessed effeds to
■Kind. But this illicit practice has rather a
^dency to do disservice to the cause of chrifti
mity, in prejudicing the minds of the Africans
against it, feeing its profeffora come Afnong theta
to bind them with the chains of slavery. What
guilt is contracted in prejudicing their minds
against a cause so worthy of their esteem ? A cause
which Christ came to reveal, and his Apostles fuf
fered martyrdom in promoting.
But the grand feriptural plea for Negro slavery
is taken from this passage in the Mosaic law,
Lev. xxv, 44, 46. Both thy bond men and thy bond
maids which thoufcalt have, shall be of the heathen
that are round about you; of them foallye buy bond
men and bond maids. Moreover of the children of
the Grangers that dofjourn among,ou, of them shall
,e buy, and of their families that, are with you which
they beget in your land, and they shall be your pos
session. And yefoall take them as an inheritance for
your Children after you, to inherit them for a pos
session; they shall be your bond men for ever." This
and force other passages are looked on by force to
be so strong in favour of slavery, that it is unan
swerable. Others who are against slavery, but
not knowing how to answer this pafiage, have
wished it erased from their bible : Therefore we
shall confider this more minutely. However we
cannot help obfetving, that it is Hrange to hear
force of a deiftieal cast flying to this as an argu
ment in favour of Have-keeping. Those of this
stamp will be little awed by the determinations of
the blessed Spirit speaking in the word. But in
order that we may have clear views of this point,
it will be neceflary to keep in our eye that the
Lord, the Supreme Legislator, gave unto Israel
a three-fold law, the moral, the ceremonial and
the judicial. The moral law is that unalterable rule
of right and wrong, founded on the infinitely holy
and just nature of God, and Thereunto men, as rea
sonable creatures, cannot but be indifpenfib(,,bound.
This law is of the fame force under the New Tes
tament difpepfation as under fe'old/ ™He cere
monial law was a fyflem of fojitive precepts about
t,e external worship of God in He Old Testament
Church, chief, defgxed to typify Chrifl as then to
come and to lead to the way of salvation through him.
This now is altogether abrogated, by Christ offer
ing the facrifiee of himfelf. The judicial law was
that bod, of laws given by Ged for the government
of the Jews, partly founded on the law of nature,
and partly refpeding them as a diftinG people from
all others. But concerning the abrogation of this
law there are sundry opinions. The Anabaptists
and Antinomians of the last century did reject it
altogether, as unsuitable in every part for the New
Testament Church. But this opinion is not te
nable, because then all the moral precepts con
tained in that law would be abrogated also ; Christ
came not to defroy the law but to fulfil. Carol
stadius, Castalio, Brochman, and others,
maintained that this law is obligatory on chrifti
ans in all its parts : Neither is this opinion de
fenfible, because many typical things, quite foreign
to chriftianity, must then be observed. The truth
lies between these two extremes. For thejudicial
law being of a mixed nature, it is partly abro
gated by Christ, and partly continues in full force.
As it was a diftindion of the Jewish commonwealth
from the Gentiles, and a type of the kingdom of
Christ, it is now done away ; but as far as founded
on the moral law, and suitable to the nature of
Christ's kingdom, it is still obligatory. The New
Testament has made void the law concerning mort
gaged estates, Lev. xxiii, 13. The laud resting
every seventh year, Ex. xxiii, 11. A brother raising
up feed for his deceased brother by marrying his
widow, Deut. xxv. 5. A man giving a bill of di
vorce to his lawful wife, Deut.xxiv, I—4. And
that of keeping bond servants in the fore-cited
passage, with many others of the like nature. All
these were suited to that commonwealth, and the
nature of that ceconomy. But the laws concern
ing various punishments, the kindness to be Hewn
to Hrangers, &c. being moral, must be still in
force, because the fame, reason subsists for them as
formerly. In reading these laws let us take this
criterion to enable us to know such of them as
continue to be binding on us : all those are in full
force as are agreeable to the law of nations fol
lowing the dictates of sacred reason ; —as are graft
ed on the decalogue, and serve to explain and
enforce its precepts (which may be known from
the matter of the laws, and the causes of their
being enaded;) and such of them as are repeated
in the New Testament, and the observation of them
recommended to chriftians.
Now the law allowing bond servants must be
difannulled, feeing there is no longer diftin&ion
between few and Gentile, and we are taught in
the New-Testament to look on all men as our bre
thren and neighbours. This is beautifully set forth
in the instance of the tender-hearted Samaritan,
relieving the man that fell among thieves.
The Jews enslaving the heathen nations that
were round about them, or “ the strangers that
sojourned among them, was in pursuance of Jacob's
blessing," Gen. 27.29. “ Let people serve thee,"
it figured the bringing on of the Gentiles to the
Church of God, Psalm, ii. 9. Aflc of me, and I
will give the heathen for thine inheritance : It
tended to shew that none shall have the benefit of
the Gospel Jubilee but those who are Israelites in
deed; and they who rejed Christ shall continue
bond-men t@ Sin and Satan. It also was de
signed to keep up the diffindion between the pos
terity of Abraham and the Gentiles, that it might
appear the Mefliah was linealy sprung from his
loins as God had said.. The different manner
of delivering these laws may inftrud us into the
nature of them. The moral law was delivered on
the top of the mount, and in the face of the world,
to fignify that it was of universal influence and
obliged all mankind. The ceremonial law was
delivered privately to Moses in the Tabernacle,
which might fignify that it was to cease when the
veil of the Temple was rent in twain from the top
even to the bottom. But the judicial law was nei
ther so publickly given as the moral law, nor so
privately as the ceremonial, intimating that it be-
ing of a mixed nature, ^ to be difannulled as Ar
as ceremonial, or peculiar to the Jewish communi
ty, but observed in what is suitable to the genius
of Christianity.
No plea can be made for Negro Slavery, from
Christ and his Apostles not condemning the Jews
for keeping bond servants, but what would allo
make for a man marrying his brother's widow if he
died without issue, for when a case of this kind was
proposed to Christ by the Sadducees, he Condemn
ed it not, Mat. 22, 23, 31, but by comparing
this, and cases of the like nature, with the genius
of divine revelation, we may easily learn the mind
of Christ.
Add to all this that no parallel can be run between
the bond servants under the law, and the slave
ry of the Africans, because the bond servants were
not tore away from their own country, and for
ced into slavery as our Negroes are, else they
could easily have made an elopement from their
masters and regained their liberty : 1 hey were to
be the children of strangers either in the land or in
the neighbouring nations. W&uld it be possible
for the English to enslave the Indians in America,
as they do the Negroes, or could the Negroes be
cnflaved in making settlements on the coast of
Africa? No, it is accomplished by these poor crea
tures, being distanced so far from their native land,
by tracts of land and water, so that it is impossi
ble for them to return. Thus it appears that car
rying 0 " the Africans into bondage for life is not
agreeable to divine revelation.
Philadelphia, ONESIMUS.
Oa. 29, 1773.
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Just publifoed, and to be fold by
JAMES HUMPHREYS, Junior,
At the lower corner of Black-horse Alley in Front
ftreet,
THE
UNIVERSAL ALMANACK,
For the YEAR 1774.
The calculations of this Almanack are performed
by that ingenious master of Mathematics David
Rittenholise, A. M. of this city, who has
been pleased to add considerably to them, and
has rendered them plain and easy to the most com
mon understanding, by a particular and full ex
planation of each part.
IT contains the motions of the fun and moon;
the true places and afpe&s of the planets; the
exa& riling and setting of the fun ; the exa& riling,
setting and southing of the moon ; the lunations ;
conjunctions ; eclipses ; judgment es the weather ;
riling and setting of the planets ; length, increase,
and decrease ot days and nights; fairs, courts,
roads, &c. together with the usual tables, chrono
logical observations, entertaining remarks, and ex
perienced receipts.
Also, the Equation of Time, or the difference
in minutes and seconds, between true and apparent
time; the place of the moon's ascending node, or
that point where the moon, after having been to
the southward of the ecliptic, crosses it, and pro
ceeds to the northward ; the visible eclipses of Jupi
ter's satellites for the meridian of Philadelphia,
&c. &c.
Likewise, the following mlfcellaneous pieces, the
monkey mountebank, an apologue ; an abftra& on
cruelty; consolation for the afflicted; true virtue,
what; on gaming; Peregrine Puzzel,a droll charac
ter; a young Lady's lamentation on the death of her
lover ; anecdotes ; jests ; on humanity, or a story
of the Emperor Carahi of China ; Lelia and Scan
bade, a Turkish tale ; and the following pieces of
poetry ; the ass overladen ; reflexions on a pipe of
tobacco and a pinch of fnuff; little mouth, or
Paul the carrier ; riddles, &c. &c.
I* The above Almanack may be had of J.
Williamson, Bookbinder in Wilmington.
Just published, and to be fold by
JOSEPH CRUKSHANK,
At his Printing-office in Market-street, between
Second and Third-streets, and opposite the Pres
byterian Meeting-house,
Poor Will's ALMANACK,
For the YEAR 1774.
CON TAIN ING the motions of the fun and
moon ; the true places and afpefts of the pla
nets ; the rising, setting, and southing of the
moon ; the lunations ; conjunctions ; eclipses ; ri
sing, setting, and southing of the planets-; length
of days ; judgment of the weather ; feftivals and
other remarkable days. Also a variety of ufeful
receipts, viz. A remedy for corns pn the feet ; a
liquid remedy for decayed teeth ; a receipt to clean
the teeth and gums, and make the flefh grow close
to the root of the enamel ; a remedy for fore gums
and loose teeth ; Sir Hans Sloan's eye-salve; for a
cancer ; for spitting of blood. Inftrudive essays on
a variety of fubje&s, viz. Drunkenness ; con
tentment and avarice ; industry and frugality ; en
trance into an estate and trade ; artificers ; the dif
ference between the words go and come; company;
conversation ; expensiveness in apparel ; a"caution
in dealing ; a way to sow clover to great advantage
—very ufeful for farmers who have not large quan
tities of meadow ; a method of preserving dung,
so as to render it twenty times as ufeful as the
common manner. ^Some pieces' of poetry, viz.
The beggar; the virgin ; infeription under an hour
glass.—A table (hewing the time of high-water at
Boston, New York, Philadelphia, North-Carolina,
South-Carolina, Georgia, East and Weft Florida ;
times of holding courts in Pennsylvania, New-York,
Maryland, and Virginia ; times of holding Quakers
general meetings ; fairs; tables of interest at 6 and
7 per cent. Tables (hewing the value and weight
of coins, as they now pass in England, Philadel
phia, and New-York ; Roads from Philadelphia to
New-England; South-Carolina, Pittsburgh, Beth
lehem, &c.
TO BE SOLD BY
PELATIAH WEBSTER,
In Water-street, between Chefnut-ftreet and Ton
Ailey,
LAMP OIL, tanners oil, sweet oil, in
barrels, Boston (hoes, fpermaceti candles,
New England rum, coffee, a few bales of C 0 T
TON, &c. &c.,
WILLIAM PRI CF,
Just arrived in the Richard Penn, Captain Ali, from
London, and has brought with him a general
assortment of GOO DS, suitable to the season
amongst which are,
BROAD and narrow cloths, coating; Ger
man (erges, camblets, camblettees, derfetteens
bombazeens, crapes, Angle and double damafk^
moreens, tammies, durants, (balloons, callimancoes;
ruffels, plain and figured ladings, serge denims;
tartans, figured tobines, yard wide worsted (i^urej
yard wide Venetians and cords, yard wide crape%
jeans, coloured pillows, royal ribbs and velvets;
checks, linen, and cotton, striped hollands, moree
gowns, half ell, 3-4 and yard wide modes, half ell
and 3-4 fattins, India taffaties, cotton and silk ro
malls, Barcelona handkerchiefs and cravats, cleat
lawns, cambricks, muslins, printed linens and cal
licoes, and a curious affbrtment of plated candle
flicks, tea-kitchens, &c. of the newest patterns.
The above-mentioned Goods were all purchased
by himfelf of the manufadarers, and are to be fold
^ r ° is ft ? re ' lat ~ ly otcu P ied b y Mr. John White, in
Water-street, between Market and Chefnut-ftreets,
on the lowest terms for ca(h o r ihort credit.
STEPHEN COLLINS,
Has just imported in the C^far, Captain Miller.
from London, and now has for sale, at his store
in Second-street, opposite the Church,
A N ^ { r"J ^° d aff ° rt ment of European
,East-India GOODS, which he will fell
very realonable for ca/h or fh^rt credit
W A N T E d;
A WOMAN of good character, to do the
bufineis of a small family. Enquire of the
printer."
N. B. None need apply but such as can be well
recommended^
T 0 BE so l d,'
By "Xf™^' %nd ^ ° n the 2 ^h instant
(October) on the fifth day of the week
AV RGE STONE DWELLING
HOUSE, two ftqries high, situate in Ger
mantown, near theFriends Meeting-house and the
Dutch Meeting-house, about fix miles from Phi
ladelphia; it is a pleasant situation, and convenient
for either a tavern or store, as there has been both
kept there formerly; there is large cellars, and a
kitchen, with a piazza, and out houses built for
Coring of salt, &c. and a well of good water near
the door. To be fold at the fame time (if not fold
before) a large strong waggon, and some gears ; al
foa stout able horse, that has been used in the chair.
.Re payments may be made easy. Attendance
will be given by
ABRAHAM GRIFFITH.
N. B. Any person inclining to purchase said houftf
before the vendue, may know the terms by apply
e^ subscriber , living at Norrington
Mills, or JOHN JONES in Germantown.-If
the house is not fold, it will be let, and entered
upon immediately.
To be SOLD by PUBLICVENDUE,
On the third day of November next, at the Lon
don Coffee-Houfe, in Pliiladelphia,
A GOOD three story brick meffuage, kitchen,
and lot ° f ground, situate on the
welt-lide of Swanson-street, in Wiccaeoe, in the
County of Philadelphia, and opposite Mr. Za
chariah Nieman's wharf, being in breadth on said
street, eighteen feet, and about one hundred and
eighty-three feet in depth, subject to a quit rent of
f ° ur P° unds ten (hillings per year. Also one
0 her lot of ground and a small brick building there
on, adjoining the above-mentioned lot, and front
ing on lame street twenty-two feet, and extending
c hundred and eighty-seven and a half
feet fubjed to a quit rent of eleven (hillings per
year; late the estate of Mr. Alexander Montgo
mery, of said city, deceased : Attendance will be
given, and the terms of sale made known on the
day, by HENRY FORSTER,
And THOMAS BOYER.
."' B* Any person who inclines to view the pre-
E"'es before the day of sale, may fee them bv apply
ing to Mr. Samuel Moore, Brewer, or Mr. An
drew Tybout, Hatter, of said city.
Philadelphia, Oftober 13th, 1773.
To be SOLD by PUBLIC VENDUE,
On the izth ofNovember next, at 6 o'clock in the
evening, at the London Coffee House,
TH E four following lots of land and improve
ments thereon, viz.
No. i. Containing eight and a half acres of land,
situate and bounding on the north fide of Frank
fort road, and on the weft fide of a lane 40 feet
wide, extending from the said road to Beulah Paf
chali's place ; there is a good dwelling house and
orchard on the premises, likewise some good fruit,
trees.
No. 2. Adjoining No. 1. and back of it, contains
ten and a half acres, bounded by the lane afore
faid, has a good dwelling house thereon, an or
chard of good bearing apple trees, and forae
other fruit trees; about one half low bottom,
which is fine meadow, and a good Ipring of water
near the house.
No. 3. Adjoining and back of No. 2. bounded by
the aforefaid lane, contains better than twelve
acres, about two acres fine meadow, and about
two acres of fine low bottom, of which good
meadow may easily be made; there is a small
orchard of good bearing apple trees on this lot.
No. 4. Adjoining No. 3. and bounded by the
lane aforefaid, and Beulah Pafchall's place north,
contains full twelve acres, of which four acres are
fine meadow, a small orchard of apple trees, and
a row of fine large well grown English cherry
trees along the lane; the situation of this lot is
very pleasant, having an extensive profpe& of the
adjoining farms, and also over Point Richmond
to the river Delaware; all the above lots are|under
good fence.
The situation of these lots renders them, very con
venient for summer retreats, for the citizens ofPhi
adelphia ; the foil is well adapted to gardening, a|^
may suit those persons well who attend^he. market,
as Frankfort road is one of the b^k^ng to Theo
ry at all times of the year, the carriage of ganiire
from thence must be very easy at any season, /'
Plans of these lots may be seen at the London
Coffee House, orat Joseph Paul's tavern at Frank
fort, who will (hew any person the premityf The
purchaser paying one half down, on givi^ good
security, may have fixmonths credit for the remain
der. For further information apply to&
SAMUEL COATES.