Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1860-06-29

| ed and renewed in us; therefore | say, you
Spiritual Jews, you must exceed the outward
jews in this, who are now come to Christ, who
is a mercituI and faithful High Priest, who is
the Savior of all men, and who tasted death
for all men Heb. 2:17. And let not your
families of Whites and Blacks be like Sodom
and Gomorral, like Zeboim. Zepharvaim, and
the rest of the cities of the Plain, or like the
Canaanites lest sudden destruction come up
on you and the Lord root you out, as he did
them. Let not | say, yonr servants under
your command, and such as are born in your
houses, and bred up in your families, and such
as you have bought with money, suffer them
not to take Il say) husbands and wives at their
pleasure and then leave them again when they
please, and then take others again, as last and
suddenly as the will, and then leave them.
This is not well this may bring the Judge
mcnts of God upon you; ye', this manlfests
your families to be unceon, and adulterated
families"
Now by these words tho but a small part of
what he wrote against it, we may see that he
was against making slaves of men, Now l do
believe that if men were but ingenious to ac-
knowledge to the Truth, even as their Con
sciences bear them Witness | need not go any
farther for proof against this practice. But
because they be not, | will turn also to the
Holy Scriptures, that so, they that are in this
Practice may be condemned by both.
First. We may observe, when God had ere
ated man, that he gave him free will, and
would not compel the will OF man, no not to
that which was Good, much less to that which
was Evil therefore we ought not to compel
our Fellow creatures.
Objection. But had not Gods People Bond
servants in all ages of the World, bought with
their money? 70 which | answer, that in the
time Of the Law, they had Bond-servants
bought with their money; but the Apostle
saith, that the servant dbideth not in the house
eUer. Now the word SerUant, | understand to
be but for time, but the word slaye forever.
And those that merchandized in SiaUeS, we
may find were Babylon's merchants, Rev. Is,
13 and those that had Bond servants under
the Law, were commanded to let them go free
after some time of service, and they were not
to let them go empty handed neither, which
some of them not observing, the Lord COM
planned by the Prophet jeremiah, that they
hare not hearkened unto me, in proclaiming Liberty
every one to his Brother, and eUery man to his
neighbour: Behold l proclaim Liberty for you
saith the Lord to the SUord, to the Pestilence and
to the Famine, and | ,cW make you to be remoUed
into all the Kingdoms of the Earth. Jer. "a. II.
Objection. But they were of their own Ma
ton that the Command was against; now
these Negroes are not of our own Nation, but
are mere Intidels and strangers. To which
objection I'll answer as it is written in Exodus
p. q. Ye shall neither ver stranger, nor OPP
press him. for ye aUere strangers in the Land of
Egypt. And also Exodus %. g. Also thou
shalt not Cypress stranger, for ye kno,o the heart
Of a stranger, seeing ye o0ere strangers IN the Land
Of Egypt. Now | do not find that it is any
more allowable to make a slave of an unbe-
lIever, than believer, seeing we are COM
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soeUeer ye ocOuld that men should do to you, do ye
ecen SO to them, for this is the Lar and the Proph-
cts. Now we may see that this was not only
Command of Christ's, but was the Law and
the Prophets also; and those that come to OBJ
serve that Command, even fulfil both Tables
at once. Now | have often considered how
earnestly some men will search into the ETY.
mology or Original of some things, that may
be but small, and in the mean while omit the
greater. Now in my Judgment every thing
ought to be looked upon according to the I'm.
portance weight or value of the thing, for to
be very Jealous i'll small thing, and to pass
lightly over a greater, that zeal may be prop
erer called superstition than good zeal, which
should be grounded upon knowledge. Now
would have all to consider Of this Practice of
making slaves of Negroes, Or others that we
can get the mastery over, to see upon what
foundation it stands, or to see what the orgi-
nal of it, whether Or no Pride and IdlenesS
not the first rise of it, that they might go with
white hands, and that their wives might (Jez-
ebel like) paint and adorn themselves, and
their sons and daughters be brought up i'll
idleness, which may very well be termed,
the mother of all Vice; for it is generally the
richest sort of People that have them, that
could do best without them, for the poor are
not so able to get them.
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