The Law of Retribution: Or, a Serious Warning to Great Britain and Her Colonies, Founded on Unquestionable Examples of God's Temporal Vengeance Against Tyrants, Slave-holders, and Oppressors. ... By Granville Sharp |
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abfolutely Affyrian African alfo alſo Babylonian becauſe Bondage Brethren Britiſh caft Captivity caufe cauſe Chaldeans chap chapter Chron City confequently Coniah Defolation deftruction delivered denounced Edom Egypt Election evil exprefsly faid the Prophet faith the Lord fame fays feems fent ferve feveral fhall fhould fignifying flaves folemn fome fuch fuppofed furely God's Vengeance hand hath himſelf Hofts Houfe Houſe Ifaiah Ifrael Ifraelites Inhabitants JECONIAH Jehoiachin Jehoiakim Jehovah Jerufalem Jews Jofiah Judgement juft Juftice King of Babylon King of Judah Kingdom Kings xxiv Land Medes mentioned Moab moft Monarch moſt muſt narch Nations Nebuchadnezzar Negroes occafioned Oppreffion perfons poor prefent Princes profper promiſe Prophecy Prophet puniſhment reafon reign RETRIBUTION RIBLAH Scripture ſeems Servant ſhall Shallum Slave-holders Slavery Slaves thee thefe themſelves theſe thofe thoſe thou shalt Throne of David tion unto Vengeance againſt verfe verſe whofe wicked word xxiii Yokes Zede Zedekiah
Popular passages
Page 238 - a hypocritical Nation, and againft "' the people of my wrath will I give him a charge " to take the fpoil, and to take the prey, and to tread " them down like the mire of the ftreets. Howbeit, he " meaneth not fo, neither doth his heart think fo^ ** but {it is) in his heart to deftroy, and
Page 165 - will build them, and not pull (them) down; and « I will plant them, and not pluck (them) up. And I -will give " them an heart to know me that I (am) the Lord : " and they jhall be my People, and
Page 321 - if the fall of them be the riches of the " world, and the diminishing of them the " riches of the Gentiles ; how much more "their fulness
Page 15 - YE BREAK EVERY YOKE ?" " Is it '* not to deal thy Bread to the Hungry, " and to bring the Poor that are cajl out
Page 153 - upon them for good, and I will bring them again to this " Land; and I will build them, and not pull (them) down; and «' I will plant them, and not pluck (them) up. And I -will
Page 9 - in the Land of Egypt, " and that the Lord thy God brought " thee out thence through a mighty hand, " and by a ftretched-out arm,
Page 16 - Senators) *' of his People, and the Princes thereof: " for ye have eaten up the Vineyard ; ** the Spoil of the Poor is in your Houfes ! *
Page 17 - up the Needy, even to make the Poor ' of the Land to fail, faying, When ' will the New Moon be gone, that ' we may fell Corn ? and the Sabbath, • that we may
Page 6 - The Lord " your God is God of Gods, and Lord •" of Lords, a great God, a mighty and a " terrible, which regardeth not
Page 242 - and to take a<way the right from the poor " of my people, that Widows may be their prey, and " that they may rob the fatherlefs