The law of God, as revealed in the scriptures of truth, is therefore the only unerring rule by which all our rights are limited, and by which all our conduct ought uniformly to be regulated. This extends to things civil as well as religious.
How strange that the glimmering rays of Nature's light should be preferred to the splendid illuminations of the holy Oracles! It is indeed strange, passing strange, that Christians should deny their obligation to take the divine law, for the rule of every part of their conduct!
Are not they the moral subjects of the King of heaven? If so, are not they bound to adhere to all his institutions? Will not their refusal be accounted rebellion?
Let us try it, for a moment, by the laws which regulate the relation between earthly rulers, and their subjects.
Suppose an earthly monarch sends his deputy to take the government of a distant province. He gives him a schedule of the laws by which the government is to be conducted. Suppose him to lose it in a fit of debauchery, on his way to the place of destination. His sovereign gets word of it.
Though capitally punishable for his criminal conduct, yet in his clemency, instead of executing justice, he remembers mercy, and sends him a new copy for the rule of his administrations. He refuses to receive it. He remembers some scattered hints of the old one, and arrogantly proposes to govern thereby.
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