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CONTENTS

OF VOL. XIII.

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NO. XLIX.

Article.

I. THE HISTORICAL AND LEGAL JUDGMENT OF

THE OLD TESTAMENT SCRIPTURES AGAINST

SLAVERY,

By George B. Cheerer, D. D.. New York.

[Continued from Vol. XII. p. 770.)

Patriarchal Establishments of Isaac and Jacob,

Captives in War,

The First Instance of Man-Stealing,

Condition of the Israelites in Egypt, .

Nature of Tributary Servitude. Case of the Canaanites

generally, and of the Gibeonites particularly,

Case of the Nethinim,

Case of the Servants of the Captive Jews, .

Case of the Children of Solomon's Servants, and of the

Strangers appointed to Labor,

The Exodus from Egypt, and the Mixed Msultitude. — Law

of the Passover,

Religious Privileges of Servants. -Law of the Sabbath,

The Year-Sabbath, and the Annual Feasts,

Time and Treatment of the IIebrew Servant.- The Six

Years' Contract,

Phraseolozy for Contracts with Servants. — Selling, or

Iliring out,

The Law against Man-Stealing. – What it proves,

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48

II. PERPETUAL SIN AND OMNIPOTENT GOODNESS,

By L. P. Hickok, D. D., Union College.

III. SCIENCE AND THE BIBLE,

80

A REVIEW OF "THE SIX DAYS OF CREATION BY PROF. TAYLER LEWIS.

Avig 3

By James D. Dana, LL.D., Silliman Professor of Natural History, Yale College.

130

IV. ATONEMENT,

By Enoch Pond, D. D., Professor in Bangor Theological Seminary.

153

V. PLACE AND CONDITION OF THE DEPARTED,

By N. H. Griffin, Professor in Williams College.

VI. NATIONALITY,

173

By Alpheus S. Packard, Professor in Bowdoin College.

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VII. NOTICES OF NEW PUBLICATIONS,

I. Tulloch's Prize Essay,

II. Brodie's Psychological Inquiries,

III. Lippincott's Pronouncing Gazetteer of the World,

IV. Baumgarten's Ilistory of the Apostolic Church,

V. Archbishop Whately on a Future State, and on

Good and Evil Angels,

VI. Prof. Schaff on the United States,

.VII. Gieseler's Church Ilistory, Last Volume,

VIII. Worcester's Dictionary,

IX. Works on Divine Sovereignty and Predestination,

X. Hackett's Illustrations of Scripture,

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I. THE MORAL FACULTY,

By Rev. Joseph Haven, Professor in Amherst College.

II. TIIE DEMANDS OF INFIDELITY SATISFIED BY

CHRISTIANITY,

272

By Samuel Harris, D. D., Professor in Bangor Theological Seminary.

314

III. FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE OF TIIE SCRIPTURES,

By Rev. Edward Robic, Greenland, X. II.

IV. THE INFLUENCE AND METIIOD OF ENGLISII

STUDIES,

By William G. T. Sheddi, Professor at Andover.

325

359

V. TIIE HISTORICAL AND LEGAL JUDGMENT OF

TIIE OLD TESTAMENT SCRIPTURES AGAINST

SLAVERY,

By George B. Cheerer, D. D., New York.

[Continued from p. 48.]

Statutes for the Protection of Oppressed Fugitives,

Force of the Demonstration from this Statute against the

possibility of Property in Man,

The Law of Jubilee. Universality of its Application De-

monstrated,

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367

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378

VI. AN ESSAY TOWARDS A DEMONSTRATION OF

THE DIVINE EXISTENCE,

388

By Rev. Daniel P. Voyes, one of the Secretaries of the American IIome

Missionary Society.

437

437

VII. NOTICES OF NEW PUBLICATIONS,

1. Norton's Translation of the Gospels,

II. Norton's Internal Evidences of the Genuineness of the