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Page vii
... Nature is the Mother of Natural Law , and Natural Law is the Mother of Civil or Instituted Law . By thus founding Morality and Law upon the whole compass of man's human and social , as well as animal and individual nature , Grotius , as ...
... Nature is the Mother of Natural Law , and Natural Law is the Mother of Civil or Instituted Law . By thus founding Morality and Law upon the whole compass of man's human and social , as well as animal and individual nature , Grotius , as ...
Page ix
... Natural Law , Jus Naturæ , distinct from Instituted Law ( Jus Gentium and Jus Civile ) , and belonging to man by his nature . I have elsewhere * endeavoured to shew that though man nowhere exists , and by his nature cannot exist , without ...
... Natural Law , Jus Naturæ , distinct from Instituted Law ( Jus Gentium and Jus Civile ) , and belonging to man by his nature . I have elsewhere * endeavoured to shew that though man nowhere exists , and by his nature cannot exist , without ...
Page xxv
... nature . 8 And this tendency to the conservation of society , which we have now expressed in a rude manner , and which tendency is in agreement with the nature of the human intellect , is the source of Jus , or Natural Law , properly so ...
... nature . 8 And this tendency to the conservation of society , which we have now expressed in a rude manner , and which tendency is in agreement with the nature of the human intellect , is the source of Jus , or Natural Law , properly so ...
Page xxvi
... natural source ; namely , the free will of God , to which , as our reason irresistibly tells us , we are bound to submit ourselves . But even that Natural Law of which we have spoken , whether it be that which binds together communities ...
... natural source ; namely , the free will of God , to which , as our reason irresistibly tells us , we are bound to submit ourselves . But even that Natural Law of which we have spoken , whether it be that which binds together communities ...
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... Natural Law , is Human Nature ; for this would lead us to desire mutual society , even if it were not required for the supply of other wants ; and the Mother of Civil Laws , is Obligation by mu- tual compact ; and since mutual compact ...
... Natural Law , is Human Nature ; for this would lead us to desire mutual society , even if it were not required for the supply of other wants ; and the Mother of Civil Laws , is Obligation by mu- tual compact ; and since mutual compact ...
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Page 216 - The LORD hath made all things for himself: yea, even the wicked for the day of evil.
Page 239 - If I beheld the sun when it shined, Or the moon walking in brightness ; And my heart hath been secretly enticed, Or my mouth hath kissed my hand : This also were an iniquity to be punished by the judge : For I should have denied the God that is above.
Page 321 - Moreover I have given to thee one portion above thy brethren, which I took out of the hand of the Amorite with my sword and with my bow.
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Page 31 - He that leadeth into captivity shall go into captivity : he that killeth with the sword, must be killed with the sword. Here is the patience and the faith of the saints.
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Page 164 - Wherein God, willing more abundantly to shew unto the heirs of promise the immutability of his counsel, confirmed it by an oath: 18 That by two immutable things, in which it was impossible for God to lie, we might have a strong consolation, who have fled for refuge to lay hold upon the hope set before us...
Page 24 - Put on the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil. For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high [places].
Page 472 - Greek and English Testament, in parallel columns on the same page. Edited by J. SCHOLEFIELD, MA late Regius Professor of Greek in the University. New Edition, with the marginal references as arranged and revised by DR SCRIvENER, js.
Page 23 - If thou forbear to deliver them that are drawn unto death, and those that are ready to be slain ; if thou sayest, "Behold, we knew it not;" doth not he that pondereth the heart consider it? and he that keepeth thy soul, doth not he know it? and shall not he render to every man according to his works?