The Limitations of Human ResponsibilityGould, Kendall & Lincoln, 1838 - 188 páginas |
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Página 102 - Sam, you are aware it is said, that we ought not to let our left hand know what our right hand doeth.
Página 175 - ... the contract, it is not conferred by the spirit, and therefore we cannot use it honorably, that is, we cannot use it at all," — until the southern states agree to it, or Maryland and Virginia, or either of them, abolish slavery in their own limits. " While I hold these opinions," he continues, " I beg leave to remark, that I entertain no light conceptions of the evil of slavery in general, or of the evil of slavery in the District of Columbia in particular. I would not own a slave, ' for all...
Página 184 - ... case, render all our argument useless, and make our very appeal to men's understandings and consciences, a positive annoyance. And in so far as I have been able to discover, such has been the effect of the system of affiliated abolition societies.
Página 147 - Help us to stand fast in the liberty wherewith Christ has made us free, and not be entangled again with any yoke of bondage; knowing that the kingdom of God is not meat nor drink, but righteousness, peace, and joy in the Holy Spirit.
Página 83 - God commands all men to use the things of this world as not abusing them. This I may also urge on the same authority. I infer that a particular kind of meat or drink is forbidden. Then this inference will bind me, but I have no right to demand that the conscience of my neighbor be bound by my inference. Mahomet forbade wine, under all circumstances. A Mahomedan may therefore in the same manner forbid it, on the authority of his master. A disciple of Christ cannot so forbid it, on the authority of...
Página 41 - ... responsible for the performance of an action, when it cannot be performed without using our power for other purposes than those for which it was committed to us. Our responsibility ceases, when a particular good cannot be accomplished without the presentation of wrong motives to another; and when the performance of one duty, may be limited by the more urgent claims of another duty of the same character. The author then applies these principles to persecution op account of opinions, to the propagation...
Página 82 - This inference may bind my conscience, but it can, as my inference, bind the conscience of no one else. Every one must in such a case be left to his own judgment; and I have no right to accuse another of disobedience to God, unless he admit that he is for himself convinced of the duty, and then disregard it.
Página 9 - Creator ; and that nothing of which we can conceive should be sufiicient to interfere with the performance of every act which he has commanded. But while all this is strictly true, it is strictly true of nothing which he has not commanded. We may plead his authority for the doing of any thing which he has enjoined, but we can plead it for nothing else.
Página 170 - it is one thing to say a man has a right to do a particular act, and a very different thing to say that it is right and just for him to do that particular act.
Página 183 - ... of the South. We have a right to attempt to change southern opinions on this question, and to show the master, by argument, that it is for his interest, and that it is his duty, to liberate his slave. But we have no right to take any measures of which the natural tendency is to excite the slaves to insubordination and civil war. We have a right to change the purpose of the master by argument...