Lemuel Haynes Quotes

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The Divine glory is an object only worthy of attention; and to display his holy character, was the design of God in creation' as there were no after beings existing antecedent therto, to attract the mind of Jehovah; and we are sure that God is pursing the same thing still, and always will.

Lemuel Haynes

Liberty and freedom is an innate principle, which is unmoveably placed in the human species; and to see a man aspire after it, is not enigmatical, seeing he acts no ways incompatible with his own nature.... Liberty is a Jewel which was handed down to man from the cabinet of heaven.

Lemuel Haynes

The reality of a future punishment is at times so clearly impressed on the human mind, that even Satan is constrained to own that there is a hell.

Lemuel Haynes

On the devil:

He is an old preacher. He lived above one thousand seven hundred years before Abraham; above two thousand four hundred and thirty years before Moses; four thousand and four years before Christ. By this time he must have acquired great skill in the art.

Lemuel Haynes

An African, or in other terms,. a Negro may justly challenge and has an undeniable right to his liberty: Consequently, the practice of slave-keeping, which so much abounds in this Land is illicit.. Liberty is equally as precious to a Black man as it is to a white one, and bondage equally as intolerable to the one as it is to the other.

Lemuel Haynes