Excerpt from Memoir of Granville Sharp: To Which Is Added Sharp's "Law of Passive Obedience," and an Extract From His "Law of Retribution;" Granville sharp was born at Durham in England, on 10th November, 1735. His earlier education was limited. In 1750, he was apprenticed, in London, to a Friend - after wards to an Independent - and subsequently to a Romanist. This intercourse with different persuasions, appears to have had no effect upon his own creed - but he learnt from it, one of the most glorious lessons which man can learn, the cordial practice of that gracious charity, which vaunteth not itself which suffereth long and is kind. Collision with a Socinian, who boasted that the original language of the New Testament favored his views, led Sharp to study the Greek - and controversy with a Jew, impelled him to the acquisition of the Hebrew. T 0 be ignorant of the truth, was to him a source of inexpressible pain and to neglect the means of acquiring it, intolerable disgrace. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition.