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Comment. Divine Law.

in the age in which they were given. to it). This is what, speaking of
laws given by God himself is what we must not suffer ourselves
to suppose; they were then well suited then to the circumstances
of that country they were: they were well suited they now are to the circumstances
of this. Not being expressly repealed by Jesus, they are therefore still in force.
To neglect them is impious. Laws "contrary to them"
are to use the words of our Author "of no validity": "ought not to be obey'd".

Such are the inextricable difficulties in which those involve
themselves who think to blend together things so
dissevered as theology and politics and theology and who think propose to
try the propriety of a political regulation by any
other test than by that by plain and luminous one, the
principle of utility. To act consistently they must
take this choice. They must be either Legislators
altogether, or Divines altogether. They cannot be
both at once. When in the Senate They must either shut up their Bible
or their Statute book. They must either give up
the notion of drawing arguments from the scriptures,
or that of good of themselves by the directing governing their measures to the
temporal felicity of the State.

The same observations nearly may be that have been applied to this
more ancient part of the Law of Revelation may be equally applied to the more modern. It is
equally incapable as the other, of serving as answering the purpose of a guide
in the purpose work of Legislation. The principle of utility

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