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EXAMINATION OF The Rev. Mr. HARRIS’s SCRIPTURAL RESEARCHES ON The Licitness of the Slave-Trade.
EXAMINATION OF The Rev. Mr. HARRIS’s SCRIPTURAL RESEARCHES ON The Licitness of the Slave-Trade.
By the Rev. JAMES RAMSAY. LONDON: Printed by James Phillips , George-Yard, Lombard-Street. M.DCC.LXXXVIII....
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ADVERTISEMENT.
ADVERTISEMENT.
THE following Examination was drawn up in the country, from a casual perusal of Mr. Harris’s Scriptural Researches, with a view of putting them into the hands of any person, who might be employed in answering that very extraordinary work. But on coming up to town, and understanding that Mr. Harris’s reasoning had produced effects on certain people, who had not studied the scriptures, or attended to that spirit of freedom, which runs throughout the Old and New Testament, and who hitherto had suff
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EXAMINATION, &c.
EXAMINATION, &c.
THIS gentleman professes to treat the subject seriously, and to submit his opinion to the decisions of revealed religion. No man has a right to dispute his sincerity, as far as his own way of thinking is concerned; but few serious people will peruse his extraordinary positions, without having their reverence for their Creator shocked, and their benevolence to their brother affected. The Scriptures, from which he draws his conclusions, we believe to teach, that all men are equally dear to their C
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TRACTS ON THE SLAVE TRADE,
TRACTS ON THE SLAVE TRADE,
Published by J. Phillips , George-Yard, Lombard-Street. An ESSAY on the Impolicy of the African Slave Trade, by T. Clarkson. In Two Parts. 2s. 6d. boards. An ESSAY on the Slavery and Commerce of the Human Species, particularly the African, translated from a Latin Dissertation, which was honoured with the First Prize in the University of Cambridge, for the Year 1785. Second Addition, with Additions, by T. Clarkson. 3s. boards. A DESCRIPTION of Guinea, its Situation, Produce, and the general Dispo
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