Willingness to be damned for the glory of God.
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Let this iniquity be viewed in its true magnitude, and in the shocking light in which it has been set in this conversation let the wretched case of the poor blacks be considered with proper pity and benevolence, together with the probably dreadful consequence to this land of retaining them in bondage, and all objection against liberating them would vanish.Samuel Hopkins
That mountains that are now raised up in the imagination of many would become plain, and every difficulty surmounted.
Samuel Hopkins
These Scriptures, therefore, are infinitely far from justifying the slavery under consideration; for it cannot be made to appear that one in a thousand of these slaves has done any thing to forfeit his own liberty.
Samuel Hopkins
It was right for them to make bond-servants of the nations round them, they having an express permission to do it from him who has a right to dispose of all men as he pleases.
Samuel Hopkins
If we obstinately refuse to reform what we have implicitly declared to be wrong, and engaged to put away the holding of the Africans in slavery... have we not the great reason to fear, yea, may we not with great certainty conclude, God will withdraw his kind protection from us, and punish us yet seven times more
Samuel Hopkins
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