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To: patlin; rxsid; edge919; Red Steel; Spaulding; Danae

That law, which God has made for man in his present state; that law, which is communicated to us by reason and conscience, the divine monitors within us, and by the sacred oracles, the divine monitors without us.

This law has undergone several subdivisions, and has been known by distinct appellations, according to the different ways in which it has been promulgated, and the different objects which it respects.

As promulgated by reason and the moral sense, it has been called natural; as promulgated by the holy scriptures, it has been called revealed law.

As addressed to men, it has been denominated the law of nature ; as addressed to political societies, it has been denominated the law of nations.

But it should always be remembered, that this law, natural or revealed, made for men or for nations, flows from the same divine source:

it is the law of God.

http://books.google.com/books?id=-Yo0AAAAMAAJ&pg=PA104&dq=law+of+nations++divine++james+wilson&output=text


349 posted on 03/25/2011 7:03:37 PM PDT by bushpilot1
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To: bushpilot1

Do I hear an AMEN!?


350 posted on 03/25/2011 7:07:35 PM PDT by Danae (Anailnathrach ortha bhais beatha do cheal deanaimha)
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