...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." In the days when the New...

...every one, so let him walk : and so ordain I in all churches. 21 Ail thou called being a servant ? care not for it : but if thou mayest be made free, use it rather. 22 For he that is called in the Lord, being a servant, is the Lord's free man : likewise also he '...

...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...

...Let every man abide in the same culling 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. 22 For he that is called in the Lord, being a servant, is the Lord's free man : likewise also he that...

...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...

...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....

...every man abide in the same calling in which ,he was called." '• \Vast thou called, being a bondman? care not " for it; but if thou mayest be made free, use it rather;'' — are to be taken in their literal sense; and tb.ey are easily applicable to the subjects of his...

...the same calling " wherein he was called ;" yet it follows : " Art thou called^ " being a bondman ? Care not for it ; but if thou mayest be " made free, use it rather : be not ye the slaves ot'i men." The case of the Christian convert in the Roman army, appears to us...

...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...

...wherewith I may sup, and afterward thou shah sup. 1 Cor. vii. 21. Art thou called being a servant, care not for it, but if thou mayest be made free, use it rather. Ver. 22. He that is called in the Lord, being a servant, is the Lord's freeman. Eph. vi. 5. Servants...