 | Johannes van der Kemp - Heidelberger Katechismus - 1810 - 572 pages
...15. The Lord God required that such thieves should be punished with death: he saith, Exod. xxi. 16, " He that stealeth a man and selleth him, or if he be found in his hand, shall surely be put to death." See also Dcut. xxiv. 7, and 1 Tim i, 10. But since we do not buy men... | |
 | African Institution (London, England) - Black people - 1815 - 172 pages
...punish* ed such crimes capitally; and it was to be found in Holy Scripture, in the book of E?odus, " That he that stealeth a man and selleth him, or if he be found in his hand, shall surely be put to death." In a word, to deprive a fellow, creature of his liberty, and to fix... | |
 | Mathew Carey - Political parties - 1817 - 476 pages
...enormity of this high-handed offence, against which the Levitical law pronounced sentence of death: — " He that stealeth a man — and selleth him — or if he be found in his hand, he shall be put to death." It is painful to state — but it is my duty to state to the world that this committee... | |
 | Jesse Torrey - Slave trade - 1822 - 140 pages
...PLATES. J ~ REPRINTED BY C. CLEMENT, AND PUBLISHED Vf }. M. COBBETT, I, CLEMENT'S INS. PREFACE. " And he that stealeth a man, and selleth him, or if he be found in his hand, shall sorely be put to death." Exodus xxi. 16. 1. THROUGHOUT this work I have numbered the paragraphs,... | |
 | James MacQueen - Slavery - 1824 - 484 pages
...the case as it regards Africa and the Slaves brought from thence to our West India Colonies. u He who stealeth a man and selleth him, or, if he be found in his hand, he (because T presume, the man was the property of another,) shall surely be put to death *," says the... | |
 | 1827 - 616 pages
...or any number of men, and hold such captive, or captives, in bondage. In Exodus xxi. 16. we read, " He that stealeth a man and selleth him, or if he be found in his hand, lie shall surely be put to death ;" and who can suppose mat the Gospel sanctions what the Law so pointedly... | |
 | Zachary Macaulay - Antislavery movements - 1831 - 592 pages
...law of slavery as it existed amongst the Jews, we find it in the 21st Exodus, chap. 16 : — " And he that stealeth a man and selleth him, or if he be found in his pound, he shall surely be put to death." The moral law of Heaven is for all. (Hear, hear.) Having now... | |
 | Zachary Macaulay - Antislavery movements - 1831 - 592 pages
...law of slavery as it existed amongst the Jews, we find it in the 21st Exodus, chap. 16 : — •" And he that stealeth a man and selleth him, or if he be found in his pound, he shall surely be put to death." The moral law of Heaven is for all. (Hear, hear.) Having now... | |
 | Samuel Greatheed, Daniel Parken, Theophilus Williams, Josiah Conder, Thomas Price, Jonathan Edwards Ryland, Edwin Paxton Hood - English literature - 1833 - 590 pages
...do; but they would not, we presume, wfci the laws of Israel revived, by which it was decreed, tnat " he that stealeth a man, and selleth him, or if he be found in his hand, he sfail surely be put to death:." And 'if Revelation has not aLolisned slavery positively in direct terms,... | |
 | Antislavery movements - 1833 - 370 pages
...no length of time can justify robbery and murder, and no English law can abrogate the Divine law : " He that stealeth a man and selleth him, or if he be found in his hands, he shall surely be put to death." Even though the statutes of England may be adduced to justify... | |
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He that stealeth a man and selleth him, or if he be found in his hands, he shall surely be put to death... 
