...But not only so ; the plain teaching of Scripture respecting the question of slavery is this — " Let every man abide in the same calling wherein he was called. Art thou called being a slave ? Care not for it : but if thou mayeet be made free, use it rather."...

...the emphatic words of the Apostle, laid down as a gene• ral principle, and illustrated in detail, " Let every man abide * in the same calling wherein he was called ;" considering, in a * word, that change is really the characteristic of error, and un' alterableness...

...to nought things that are ; that no flesh should glory in his presence." 1 Cor. i. 27, 28, 29. — " Let every man abide in the same calling wherein he was called." 1 Cor. vii. 20. — The carnation should not wish to be the tulip, the finger an eye, nor the weak desire to act within...

...Circumcision is nothing, and uncircumcision is nothing, but the keeping of the commandments of God. 20 Let every man abide in the same calling wherein he was called. 21 Art thou called being a servant? care not for it: but if thou mayest be made free, use it rather....

...Gen. iv. 2. And Abel was a keeper of sheep, but t'ain was a tiller of the ground, 1 Cor. viii. 20, 24. Let every man abide in the same calling wherein he was called : Brethren, let every man wherein he is called, therein abide with God. 2. By a mock-rate care in our...

...the charge of him, who, next under the Almighty, had the marshalling of the Church of the Gentiles ; Let every man abide in the same calling, •wherein he was called ; 1 Cor. vii. 20. Perhaps there may be a better head for policy, upon plebeian shoulders, than the governor's : shall...

...exhortation." 1 Cor. xii. 29. " Are all apostles ? Are all prophets ? Are all teachers ?" I Cor. vii. 20. " Let every man abide in the same calling wherein he was called." 1 Thes. iv. 11. " And that ye study to be quiet, and to do your own business, and to work with• your...

...heaven : but it is the conscionable walking after the commandments of God, that God careth for. VII. 20 Let every man abide in the same calling wherein he was called. Let every man abide contentedly and quietly in that condition, wherein he was called by God ; not striving...

...live. Mat.-ii. 8. — Behold, they that wear soft cloth'ing are in kings' houses. r 1 Cor. vii. 2O. Let every man abide in the same calling wherein he was called. Gen. ii. 15. And the Lord God took the man, and put him into the garden of Eden, to dress it, and to...

...Circumcision is nothing, and uncircumcision is nothing, but the keeping of thecommandmentsofGod. 20 Let every man abide in the same calling wherein he was called. 2 1 Art thou called being a servant ? care not for it ; but if thou maystbe made free, use it rather....