Book/Printed Material All slave-keepers that keep the innocent in bondage : apostates pretending to lay claim to the pure & holy Christian religion, of what congregation so ever, but especially in their ministers, by whose example the filthy leprosy and apostacy is spread far and near : it is a notorious sin which many of the true Friends of Christ and his pure truth, called Quakers, has been for many years and still are concern'd to write and bear testimony against as a practice so gross & hurtful to religion, and destructive to government beyond what words can set forth, or can be declared of by men or angels, and yet lived in by ministers and magistrates in America Page view
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Image 1 of Page view National Digital Library Program Identifying Target AGGREGATEITEM ID odyssey0322 TITLE Benjamin Lay All Slave Keepers that Keep the Innocent in Bondage Philadelphia Printed for the Author 1737 LOCATION ID CUSTODIAL DIVISION IPO…- Contributor: Harper, Nathan - Franklin, Benjamin - Benjamin Franklin Collection (Library of Congress) - Lay, Benjamin
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Image 2 of Page view Loaned by Wm Lancaster 11th Aug 1862- Contributor: Harper, Nathan - Franklin, Benjamin - Benjamin Franklin Collection (Library of Congress) - Lay, Benjamin
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Image 4 of Page view William Lancaster- Contributor: Harper, Nathan - Franklin, Benjamin - Benjamin Franklin Collection (Library of Congress) - Lay, Benjamin
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Image 5 of Page view- Contributor: Harper, Nathan - Franklin, Benjamin - Benjamin Franklin Collection (Library of Congress) - Lay, Benjamin
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Image 6 of Page view ALL SLAVEKEEPERS That keep the Innocent in Bondage APOSTATES Pretending to lay Claim to the Pure Holy Christian Religion of what Congregation so ever but especially in their Ministers by whose example…- Contributor: Harper, Nathan - Franklin, Benjamin - Benjamin Franklin Collection (Library of Congress) - Lay, Benjamin
- Date: 1738
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Image 7 of Page view- Contributor: Harper, Nathan - Franklin, Benjamin - Benjamin Franklin Collection (Library of Congress) - Lay, Benjamin
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Image 8 of Page view THE PREFACE Impartial Reader THESE Things following are so far from offending or grieving my very dear true and tender Friends called Quakers who love the Truth more then all that it…- Contributor: Harper, Nathan - Franklin, Benjamin - Benjamin Franklin Collection (Library of Congress) - Lay, Benjamin
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Image 9 of Page view self likewise although not without some fear and trembling for fear I should hurt Truths cause which is Gods cause I being and seeing myself so very unfit almost every way as…- Contributor: Harper, Nathan - Franklin, Benjamin - Benjamin Franklin Collection (Library of Congress) - Lay, Benjamin
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Image 10 of Page view PREFACE To send them to deliver his people from Captivity and many other worthy Men ay and Women too which are mentioned in Holy writ and many Thousands more no doubt which…- Contributor: Harper, Nathan - Franklin, Benjamin - Benjamin Franklin Collection (Library of Congress) - Lay, Benjamin
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Image 11 of Page view 6 ALL SLAVEKEEPERS c Some Observations written 1718 by William Burling now living for aught I know on Long Island concerning Slavekeeping taken from his Writings The same Year I was convinced…- Contributor: Harper, Nathan - Franklin, Benjamin - Benjamin Franklin Collection (Library of Congress) - Lay, Benjamin
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Image 12 of Page view 7 MY Dear Beloved Friends and Elder Brethren whom as it behoves me I would intreat as Fathers a waighty Concern from the Lord is and barb been at times for many…- Contributor: Harper, Nathan - Franklin, Benjamin - Benjamin Franklin Collection (Library of Congress) - Lay, Benjamin
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Image 13 of Page view 8 generally hurtful whereever it prevaileth therefore to be carefully avoided however I hope we are all unanimous in our judgement that whatever Friend hath any thing from the movings of the…- Contributor: Harper, Nathan - Franklin, Benjamin - Benjamin Franklin Collection (Library of Congress) - Lay, Benjamin
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Image 14 of Page view 9 not what will become of thee Never fear Friend Fear suprises thou knows who but the Truth is stronger than all the Powers of Hell Blessed forever is the God of…- Contributor: Harper, Nathan - Franklin, Benjamin - Benjamin Franklin Collection (Library of Congress) - Lay, Benjamin
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Image 15 of Page view 10 the Author of all Sin and Sin is the Transgression of the Law No greater nor no better Law say I than to love God above all and all our FellowCreatures…- Contributor: Harper, Nathan - Franklin, Benjamin - Benjamin Franklin Collection (Library of Congress) - Lay, Benjamin
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Image 16 of Page view 11 Friends by the tender Mercies of our God to consider can be greater Hypocrisy and plainer contradiction than for us as a People to refuse to bear Arms or to pay…- Contributor: Harper, Nathan - Franklin, Benjamin - Benjamin Franklin Collection (Library of Congress) - Lay, Benjamin
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Image 17 of Page view 12 do that you would turn to the Lord the Blessed Truth in your Hearts for Direction for Counsel and Advice that you may quit your selves like Men honorably of this…- Contributor: Harper, Nathan - Franklin, Benjamin - Benjamin Franklin Collection (Library of Congress) - Lay, Benjamin
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Image 18 of Page view 13 Sins in the World all things considered And against you too in some sort as being in the practice yourselves of that which is directly opposite to your own Pretensions and…- Contributor: Harper, Nathan - Franklin, Benjamin - Benjamin Franklin Collection (Library of Congress) - Lay, Benjamin
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Image 19 of Page view 14 of our infirmities tempted in all cases like unto us yet without Sin and so are his Saints for they are all of one and they live with him Night and…- Contributor: Harper, Nathan - Franklin, Benjamin - Benjamin Franklin Collection (Library of Congress) - Lay, Benjamin
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Image 20 of Page view 15 midst of the Paradise of God in the Heart W B In his Preface mentions something of the Lords dealing with him when he was about about 10 or 12 Years…- Contributor: Harper, Nathan - Franklin, Benjamin - Benjamin Franklin Collection (Library of Congress) - Lay, Benjamin
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Image 21 of Page view so cruel to their Slaves as many Christians so called are to theirs by what I have seen and heard of in Barbadoes and elsewhere and I give you a reason for…- Contributor: Harper, Nathan - Franklin, Benjamin - Benjamin Franklin Collection (Library of Congress) - Lay, Benjamin
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Image 22 of Page view 17 no not for the Joy of the Lord And some of these were Priests and Levites for ought we know for they loved their Heathen Whores I believe and other filthiness…- Contributor: Harper, Nathan - Franklin, Benjamin - Benjamin Franklin Collection (Library of Congress) - Lay, Benjamin
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Image 23 of Page view 18 And really to give them their due they come very near them in Words for what I and some others can see for we have observed them strictly as is our…- Contributor: Harper, Nathan - Franklin, Benjamin - Benjamin Franklin Collection (Library of Congress) - Lay, Benjamin
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Image 24 of Page view 19 mean a capacity and little Learning but as I firmly believing it to be my duty in the fight of God I endeavor to do what I can and leave the…- Contributor: Harper, Nathan - Franklin, Benjamin - Benjamin Franklin Collection (Library of Congress) - Lay, Benjamin
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Image 25 of Page view And yet this Man of God never came to the Supulchers of his Fathers by reason an old lying Prophet leading him out of the way So we slain by a Lyon…- Contributor: Harper, Nathan - Franklin, Benjamin - Benjamin Franklin Collection (Library of Congress) - Lay, Benjamin
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Image 26 of Page view 21 find in it he was a very tender hearted Man before he came amongst Friends as well as after as I have heard from many honest Friends that had much dealing…- Contributor: Harper, Nathan - Franklin, Benjamin - Benjamin Franklin Collection (Library of Congress) - Lay, Benjamin
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Image 27 of Page view 22 Bottomless Pit if we can tho we cant disprove a Word in it for its undeniable Truth and so unanswerable for we never understood that any one ever attempted it or…- Contributor: Harper, Nathan - Franklin, Benjamin - Benjamin Franklin Collection (Library of Congress) - Lay, Benjamin
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Image 28 of Page view a tittle of it especially with our Brethren in first Unity in this Iniquity and soulest of Sins the Negroe Trade If this practice can be proved to be greatest of Sins…- Contributor: Harper, Nathan - Franklin, Benjamin - Benjamin Franklin Collection (Library of Congress) - Lay, Benjamin
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Image 29 of Page view of that he did not What if the Earth did open and swallow up Korah and a Fire from the Lord consumed others yet we may take notice the Congregation were not…- Contributor: Harper, Nathan - Franklin, Benjamin - Benjamin Franklin Collection (Library of Congress) - Lay, Benjamin
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Image 30 of Page view 25 from the Cross and we will believe in him It is true the Objection is just and it may be a Parallel Case But what shall we do for People begin…- Contributor: Harper, Nathan - Franklin, Benjamin - Benjamin Franklin Collection (Library of Congress) - Lay, Benjamin
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Image 31 of Page view 26 our Practice or us for continuing in it And further as we have the Power of Discipline our Ministers are forcd and must of Necessity come to us for Certificates or…- Contributor: Harper, Nathan - Franklin, Benjamin - Benjamin Franklin Collection (Library of Congress) - Lay, Benjamin
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Image 32 of Page view 27 abovementiond when thee comes near their Dwellings which thee may chance to hear of by strict Inquiry inform Friends against them whenever thee can tho the Name of an Informer be…- Contributor: Harper, Nathan - Franklin, Benjamin - Benjamin Franklin Collection (Library of Congress) - Lay, Benjamin
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Image 33 of Page view 28 bring forth such Fruit what Fruit must evil Trees bring forth This will not hold by a Parity of Reason comparing Things with Things by an Equality it will not hold…- Contributor: Harper, Nathan - Franklin, Benjamin - Benjamin Franklin Collection (Library of Congress) - Lay, Benjamin
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Image 34 of Page view rather than rise from their Seats call the poor Slave from her Drudgery to come and wait upon them These Things have been the utter Ruin of more than a few and…- Contributor: Harper, Nathan - Franklin, Benjamin - Benjamin Franklin Collection (Library of Congress) - Lay, Benjamin
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Image 35 of Page view demure seemingly in their Appearance before Men according to Christs Account of them and yet the worst Enemies the dear Lamb had or that the Devil could procure for or against him…- Contributor: Harper, Nathan - Franklin, Benjamin - Benjamin Franklin Collection (Library of Congress) - Lay, Benjamin
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Image 36 of Page view 31 stuffing their lazy ungodly Bellies Then old Sir Mafter calls Negro fetch my beft Gelding quickly for me to ride to Meeting to preach the Gospel of glad Tydings to all…- Contributor: Harper, Nathan - Franklin, Benjamin - Benjamin Franklin Collection (Library of Congress) - Lay, Benjamin
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Image 37 of Page view 32 ny Body and Soul and will be of more I greatly fear beside and above all the foul Stain it brings upon the pure blessed unchangeable TRUTH And my dear my…- Contributor: Harper, Nathan - Franklin, Benjamin - Benjamin Franklin Collection (Library of Congress) - Lay, Benjamin
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Image 38 of Page view and Condition that mine Eyes beheld them in then and it is the fame now and will remain except the great almigh ty Being either immediately or inftru mentally fhall be pleafed…- Contributor: Harper, Nathan - Franklin, Benjamin - Benjamin Franklin Collection (Library of Congress) - Lay, Benjamin
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Image 39 of Page view Stinking Meat decayed Fish which we had plenty of in that hot Country so my dear sweet Sarah she would hand it to them here and there to those that she thought…- Contributor: Harper, Nathan - Franklin, Benjamin - Benjamin Franklin Collection (Library of Congress) - Lay, Benjamin
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Image 40 of Page view 35 their Rum to compleat the Tragedy that is to say to destroy the People in Pennsylvania and ruin the Country Dear Friends or any of my FellowCreatures I must confess I…- Contributor: Harper, Nathan - Franklin, Benjamin - Benjamin Franklin Collection (Library of Congress) - Lay, Benjamin
- Date: 1738
About this Item
Title
- All slave-keepers that keep the innocent in bondage : apostates pretending to lay claim to the pure & holy Christian religion, of what congregation so ever, but especially in their ministers, by whose example the filthy leprosy and apostacy is spread far and near : it is a notorious sin which many of the true Friends of Christ and his pure truth, called Quakers, has been for many years and still are concern'd to write and bear testimony against as a practice so gross & hurtful to religion, and destructive to government beyond what words can set forth, or can be declared of by men or angels, and yet lived in by ministers and magistrates in America
Names
- Lay, Benjamin, 1677-1759
- Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790, printer
- Harper, Nathan, former owner
- Benjamin Franklin Collection (Library of Congress)
Created / Published
- Philadelphia : Printed for the author, 1737 [i.e. 1738]
Headings
- - Slavery--United States--Early works to 1800
- - Slavery and the church--Society of Friends--Early works to 1800
- - Antislavery movements--United States--Early works to 1800
- - Pennsylvania--Philadelphia
Notes
- - Corrected date from p. 253: Abington, the 29th of the 3d mo. 1738.
- - Evans attributes printing to B. Franklin.
- - Signatures: A-2M⁴ (2M4 blank).
- - Evans 4149
- - English short title catalogue, W9836
- - Miller, C.W. Franklin, 134
- - Errata: p. [7] at end.
- - LC copy has paper book label on front paste-down, printed by J.F. Gilbert, Printer, Frankford: The property of Nathan Harper, Frankford; ink ownership inscription: Friends Library, Clear Creek, Putnam Co., Ill. No. 183.
- - LC copy lacks final blank leaf.
- - LAC brd 2019-04-24 no edits (2 cards)
Medium
- 271, [9] p. ; 15 cm. (8vo)
Call Number/Physical Location
- E446 .L4
Digital Id
Library of Congress Control Number
- 66038906
Online Format
- online text
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