[A History of American Christianity by Leonard Woolsey Bacon]@TWC D-Link book
A History of American Christianity

CHAPTER IX
24/31

29-32.

"The greatest and boldest improvement which has been made in criminal jurisprudence by any one act since the dark ages was that which was made by our fathers when they determined 'that the judicial laws of God, as they were delivered by Moses, and as they are a fence to the moral law, being neither typical nor ceremonial nor having any reference to Canaan, shall be accounted of moral equity, and generally bind all offenders and be a rule to all the courts.'" [114:1] For the dealing of Fox with the case of John Perrot, who had a divine call to wear his hat in meeting, see the "History of the Society of Friends," by the Messrs.

Thomas, pp.

197-199 (American Church History Series, vol.xii.).
[116:1] Quoted in Bancroft, vol.iii., p.

366.
[117:1] Bancroft, vol.ii., p.


<<Back  Index  Next>>

D-Link book Top

TWC mobile books