 | Jared Sparks - Theology - 1823 - 396 pages
...nay, whoever hath an absolute authority to interpret any written, or spoken laws, it is he, who is truly the lawgiver, to all intents and purposes ; and not the person who first wrote, or spake them. In human society, the interpretation of laws may, of necessity, be lodged, in some cases,... | |
 | Benjamin Hoadly (bp. of Winchester.) - 1836 - 118 pages
...Christ himself, nay, hath an absolute authority to interpret any written or spoken laws. It is he who is truly the lawgiver, to all intents and purposes, and not the person who first wrote or spoke them. In human society the interpretation of laws may of necessity be lodged, in some cases, in the hands... | |
 | Joseph Angus - Church and state - 1839 - 286 pages
...is; nay, whoever hath an absolute authority to interpret any written or spoken laws, it is he who is truly the lawgiver to all intents and purposes, and not the person who first wrote or spoke them. " In humane society the interpretation of laws may, of necessity, be lodged, in some cases, in the... | |
 | Tracts - Church and state - 1840 - 514 pages
...: nay, whoever hath an absolute authority to interpret any written or spoken laws, it is he, who is truly the lawgiver, to all intents and purposes, and not the person who first wrote or spoke them. In human society, the interpretation of laws may of necessity be lodged, in some cases, in the hands... | |
 | James Buchanan - Oxford movement - 1843 - 140 pages
...; nay, whoever hath an absolute authority to interpret any written or spoken laws, it is he who is truly the lawgiver to all intents and purposes, and not the person who first wrote or spoke them." " It evidently destroys the rule and authority of Jesus Christ as "King, to set up any other authority... | |
 | Walter Farquhar Hook - 1850 - 678 pages
...— 'Nay whoever hath an absolute authority to interpret any written or spoken laws, it is he, who is truly the lawgiver to all intents and purposes, and...latter. Others have had the written law, they only of all interpreters heard it spoke by Christ ; and his lordship has left us only this choice, either... | |
 | 1851 - 542 pages
...Hoadly, " Whosoever hath an absolute authority to interpret any written or spoken laws, it is he who is truly the lawgiver to all intents and purposes, and not the person who first wrote or spoke them;" from Wilkins' Concilia, vol. iv. p. 673. The English people is too great to need any help in the settlement... | |
 | Robert Isaac Wilberforce - Church - 1851 - 162 pages
...expresses it, " Whoever hath an absolute authority to interpret any written or spoken laws, it is he who is truly the lawgiver to all intents and purposes, and not the person who first wrote or spoke them."46 Now this circumstance gives additional consequence to the 25th Henry VIII. 19, by which the... | |
 | George Gresley Perry - 1864 - 674 pages
..."Nay, whoever hath an absolute authority to interpret any written or spoken laws, it is he, who is truly the lawgiver to all intents and purposes, and...latter. Others have had the written law, they only of all interpreters heard it spoke by Christ ; and his lordship has left us only this choice, either... | |
 | Law - 1917 - 510 pages
...an absolute authority to interpret any written or spoken laws, it is He who is truly the Law Giver to all intents and purposes, and not the person who first wrote and spoke them.' "23 While the truth of this passage cannot be gainsaid, it is obvious that the current... | |
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Nay, whoever hath an absolute Authority to interpret any written, or spoken Laws; it is He, who is truly the Law-giver, to all Intents and Purposes; and not the Person who first wrote, or spoke them. 
