A Sermon Of Slavery Delivered Jan 31 1841 Repeated June 4 1843 And Now Published By Request By Theodore Parker

Author : Theodore Parker
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ISBN 13 : 9781331853237
Total Pages : 30 pages
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Download or read book A Sermon of Slavery written by Theodore Parker and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-20 with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from A Sermon of Slavery: Delivered Jan; 31, 1841, Repeated June 4, 1843, and Now Published by Request "Know ye not that to whom ye yield yourselves servants to obey, his servants ye are whom ye obey; whether of Sin unto Death, or of Obedience unto Righteousness?" - Rom. vi. 16. In our version of the New Testament the word servant often stands for a word in the original, which means slave. Such is the case in this passage just read, and the sense of the whole verse is this: - "If a man yields unconditional service to Sin, he is the slave of Sin, and gets Death for his reward." Here, however, by a curious figure of speech, not uncommon in this Apostle, he uses the word slave in a good sense - slave of Obedience unto Righteousness. I now ask your attention to a short sermon of slavery. A popular definition has sometimes been given of common bodily slavery, that it is the holding of property in man. In a kindred language it is called Body-property. In this case, a man's body becomes the possession, property, chattel, tool, or thing of another person, and not of the man who lives in it. This foreign person, of course, makes use of it to serve his own ends without regard to the true welfare, or even the wishes of the man who lives in that body, and to whom it rightfully belongs. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.