Excerpt from A Scriptural Examination of the Institution of Slavery in the United States: With Its Objects and Purposes Why should any one be astonished at slavery? This is not the only time that it has been employed as a means of working out great purposes. God's chosen and peculiar people they who first composed the Church; they to whom the oracles of salvation were delivered they of whom the prophets were they from whom the Redeemer of the world sprang, were enslaved in as hard, perhaps in much harder bondage, than has ever been experienced by Africans in the United States - a bondage from which they were delivered only aftera series of the most astonishing displays of the Divine displeasure, inflicted upon their oppressors for their obstinacy in refusing to let the people go. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.