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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 / written for a general service.

Sabin Americana: History of the Americas, 1500–1926 Available online

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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Lay, Benjamin, 1677-1759.
Series:
Sabin Americana : History of the Americas, 1500-1926.
Sabin Americana : History of the Americas, 1500-1926
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Slavery--United States--Controversial literature.
Slavery.
Slavery and the church--Society of Friends.
Slavery and the church.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (271 p. )
Place of Publication:
1737 Philadelphia,
[Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified], 1737.
Notes:
Reproduction of original from Library of Congress.
Sabin no. 39465.
Cited in:
RLIN, CTRG224889-B
OCLC:
85889789

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