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Common Law. Judicial Decisions.

with vehemence, "if it be contrary to the divine Law."
Statues, the known, the ample, the sovereign, the written the explicit Law of
the land having been long ago laid sprawling by our author under his feet
by the wind of the divine Law these slender existence
the expression of will, of particular Judges & subordinates [Magistrates] can hardly expect
better quarter. As to the divine Law, what it has to
do in this place, or what sort of honour is likely to
accrue to it by being placed thus in contradistinction,
clear and manifest [resolute] contradistinction to reason
let others say. Thus much let it be observed, that
if it is difficult as it may be to say what is the human Common
Law, it is a thousand times more difficult [in many
points] to say what is the Divine Law [on any subject].
So that if it be but too easy for a man to strap find an inlet for his
own caprice under colour shelter of the first mentioned exception,
it is a thousand times more easy under
shelter of this last. W Free will Law & Common hence
Welcome Fanaticism: if this exception be admitted, as a distinct one from
the other. [Welcome Fanaticism.] We must always
remember that out of the whole of what has been ever
called Divine Law, our Author makes no exception. It is all brought up to set in battle array against the Law of the Land; Moraic Law and all. Thus thought and thus reasoned the hapless In this humour in their sentiments were the
deluded people of the Massachusets: and in these sentiments
they tainted the air with the pestilential pestilence
voice of perjury murderers, and the land with innocent blood.[a]

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