Fugitive Slave Law: The Religious Duty of Obedience to Law : A Sermon by Ichabod S. Spencer Preached in the Second Presbyterian Church in Brooklyn, Nov. 24, 1850
Fugitive Slave Law: The Religious Duty of Obedience to Law : A Sermon by Ichabod S. Spencer Preached in the Second Presbyterian Church in Brooklyn, Nov. 24, 1850
Fugitive Slave Law: The Religious Duty of Obedience to Law is a sermon by Ichabod S. Spencer, delivered on November 24, 1850, at the Second Presbyterian Church in Brooklyn. The sermon addresses the moral and legal complexities surrounding the Fugitive Slave Law, emphasizing the religious obligation to obey human laws, even those deemed unjust. Spencer critiques abolitionist movements advocating for violent resistance, arguing for societal change through lawful means and underscoring the importance of maintaining civil order as divinely mandated.
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“All our earthly benefits, and no small part of our spiritual privileges and hopes are wrapped up in it. Religion cannot prosper, if Law is not potential”
— Ichabod S. Spencer
“The social compact" may be a very good idea to employ for convincing an infidel in respect to the right of Law; but it is too low and loose an idea for a Christian; it falls far below the truth, and below the just solemnity of obligation.””
— Ichabod S. Spencer
“But when it is presented as the foundation on which civil government reposes, though it may satisfy a citizen, it ought not at all to satisfy a Christian. The truth is, there is no such "social compact." The idea is only a fancy. Human government is not founded on any such "social compact" at all. It either exists by force, or it is founded on the will of God, in every case. Its just foundation is the will of God. And when men are submitting to human government, they are not to consider themselves as merely carrying out the implied conditions of a "social compact;" but their duty is, to consider themselves as submitting to an ordinance of their God and Maker. Human””
— Ichabod S. Spencer
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