...provisions only develop and apply the old doctrine of the common law, both in England and America, that Christianity is part and parcel of the law of the land ; and it may be doubted whether a great part of the early legislation of Massachusetts, which Mr. Hildreth...

...upon. The well-known saying of Sir Matthew Hale is not a flower of rhetoric, but a real maxim of law, that Christianity is part and parcel of the law of the land ; and as such we shall regard it. It is not right for a Judge to say, that the legal establishment...

...when we are talking of the " bloody Queen Mary." The punishments now-a-days proceed from the maxim -that " Christianity is part and parcel of the law of the land." When did it begin ? Before, or since, the " Reformation ''? And, who, amongst all these sects, which,...

...wide and rapid after, as hefore that event. So far is true religion from needing the aid of the state. We are told that Christianity is part and parcel of the law of England ; I wish to God it may he proved this day, that we are so told correctly, hecause if Christianity...

...rolls on a Sunday, will give to the following suggestions a due share of attention. Let it be assumed that " Christianity is part and parcel of the law of the land." Now the violation of a law is twofold ; direct or implied. The sale of a book, which denies the genuineness...

...not bear scrutiny, or generally coincide with popular opinion. We have been told, by high authority, that Christianity is part and parcel of the law of the land. If so, it is time that the value of this portion of our inheritance should be better known and appreciated....

...suffer most severely for denying the ' truth of Christianity ; from which ' bench it has been held that Christianity ' is part and parcel of the law of the ' land ; judge you of the figure which ' England will make amongst Christian " nations, when a Jew, a blasphemer...

...account of a trial for anti-religious libel, I became acquainted for the first time with the legal maxim, that " Christianity is part and parcel of the law of the land." I remember with what grief I entered my thoughts in the Common-place Book which I have generally kept...

...highest, and on earth peace, good will towards men." We shall not find it difficult, then, to show, in the last place, that the slavery of our colonies...suffer it to be continued, in any of its dependencies 1 But that we may not be accused of unfairness, let us make all the concessions which can justly be...

...spirit of humanity !" I yet hold with him as against his judges and persecutors. I hold the assertion, that Christianity is part and parcel of the law of the land, to be an absurdity. It might as well be said, because there is, or might be, a law to protect carpenters...