Report of the Proceedings Against the Late Rev. J. Smith, of Demerara, Minister of the Gospel, who was Tried Under Martial Law, and Condemned to Death, on a Charge of Aiding and Assisting in a Rebellion of the Negro Slaves: From a Full and Correct Copy, Transmitted to England by Mr. Smith's Counsel, and Including the Documentary Evidence Omitted in the Parliamentary Copy; with an Appendix; Containing the Letters and Statements of Mr. and Mrs. Smith |
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Page 73 - and shalt honour him, not doing thine own ways, nor finding " thine own pleasure, nor speaking thine own words; then shalt thou "delight thyself in the Lord; and I will cause thee to ride upon the " high places of the earth, and feed thee with the heritage of Jacob thy " father; for the mouth of the Lord hath
Page 73 - v. 54 and 56.—" And that day was the preparation, and the sabbath " drew on. And the women also, which came with him from Galilee, "followed after, and beheld the sepulchre, and how his body was laid. " And they returned and prepared spices and ointments; and rested the " sabbath-day according to the commandment.
Page 64 - my mouth, and warn them from me. When I say unto the wicked, 0 " wicked man, thou shalt surely die; if thou dost not speak to warn the " wicked from his way, that wicked man shall die in his iniquity; but " his blood will I require at thy hand.
Page 73 - them. But the house of Israel rebelled against me in the wilderness: " they walked not in my statutes, and they despised my judgments, " (which if a man do, he shall live in them;) and my sabbaths they " greatly polluted: then I said, I would pour out my fury upon them in "the wilderness to consume them.
Page 64 - Obey " them that have the rule over you, and submit yourselves: for they " watch for your souls, as they that must give account; that they may " do it with joy, and not with grief: for that is unprofitable
Page 2 - detain him, and without giving any information respecting him to the proper authorities, against the peace of our Sovereign Lord the King, his crown and dignity, and against the laws in force in this colony, and in defiance of the proclamation of martial law, issued by His Excellency the
Page 73 - and in Jerusalem. Then I contended with the nobles of Judah, " and said unto them, what evil thing is this that ye do, and profane " the sabbath-day ? Did not your fathers thus, and did not our God "bring all this evil upon us, and upon this city? Yet ye bring more "wrath upon Israel by profaning the sabbath.
Page 67 - in the wilderness. Now these things were our " examples, to the intent we should not lust after evil things, as they also " lusted. Neither be ye idolaters, as were some of them; as it is written,
Page 66 - to go at large and depart, without attempting to seize and detain " him,, and without giving any information respecting him to the proper "authorities, against the peace of our Sovereign Lord the King, his " Crown and Dignity, and against the laws in force in this colony, and in " defiance of the proclamation of martial law issued by his Excellency
Page 73 - 13.—" Moreover also, I gave them my sabbaths, to be a sign between " me and them, that they might know that I am the Lord that sanctifies " them. But the house of Israel rebelled against me in the wilderness: " they walked not in my statutes, and they despised my judgments,