The Presbyterian Quarterly and Princeton Review: April, 1876 (Classic Reprint) - Hardcover

Lyman H. Atwater

9780332272122: The Presbyterian Quarterly and Princeton Review: April, 1876 (Classic Reprint)

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0332272125 ISBN 13: 9780332272122

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Excerpt from The Presbyterian Quarterly and Princeton Review: April, 1876

Now, in regard to the second table, or the man-ward part,of the decalogue, there can be no question that it underlies and ought to control all human legislation in the various stations and relations to which it refers, insomuch that: I. Lawgivers may never rightfully enjoin or positively sanction any violation of them; 2. In all practicable ways consistent with their proper functions and prerogatives, they must enforce and promote their observance by visiting suitable penalties upon the transgressors of them. Indeed,the larger part of all civil statutes aim at the direct or indirect application and enforcement of them. And as to the common, in distinction from the statute law, it is but the unfolding and application of the principles of eternal jus tice, as embodied in the decalogue, to the progressive and ever varying conditions of mankind in civil society.

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