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-position, that "Christianity is part of the laws
"of the land." What is it we are to understand
by this loose and declamatory expression? That
when a thief takes your cloak from you, you
are bound to give him your coat? that criminals
taken in the fact are not to be punished till + + you can find a spotless executioner executioners can be found who are free without from
sin? that persons whosoever where a man is seen to be of a church faith in different
from the christian, or who have of no church at all no faith, our you
to be compelled are to compel him to come in? [and that wife is you are to set
to be set against her husband, and the brother
against his brother to effect it?] There is another
There then we
have another dictum which should either be explained
or be expunged.
Such are the lights which are to be collected
from the common law of England for the ordering
of the religious concerns of a million of Muhometans
added to ten nine million of Gentoos.
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