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Example sentences for "human laws"

  • An enemy to all social order, he spurns at human laws, and breaks through every barrier opposed to his wickedness.

  • If men were told they would not be answerable for the evil committed in this life to human laws, but that God would punish them after death, it is evident the human race would soon be exterminated.

  • Men who cannot be restrained from doing evil by human laws, have no dread of any other.

  • We do not believe in such evidence, nor do we believe that a man can justly be made property by human laws.

  • Human laws, I contend, cannot make human beings property, if human force can do it.

  • Human laws have, in all countries and ages, been violated whenever the inducements to do so afforded hopes of great profit.

  • Now according to the prescription of human laws [*Dig.

  • But in matters that are determined in accordance with Divine or human laws, it is not left to him to show mercy.

  • Thus according to human laws, soldiers who are deputed to warlike pursuits are forbidden to engage in commerce [*Cod.

  • Nevertheless according to human laws no punishment is inflicted on him, for the reason given above.

  • He graduated at a higher university--a university unshackled by human laws, conventional feelings, and preconceived opinions.

  • The mass of professed Christians, whose creed and mode of worship have been provided by human laws, has ever been opposed to the sincere disciples of Christ.

  • Many things essentially evil are not properly punishable by human laws.

  • On the differences of human laws, and especially of those that are penal, or in the nature of penal; 6.

  • On the interpretation, the alteration, and the abolition of human laws; 7.

  • Who is unaware, that nothing tends so powerfully to keep the traffic in strong drink from becoming universally odious, as the fact, that this body and soul destroying business finds a sanction in human laws?

  • Human laws, as is evident, cannot regulate what is necessary (e.

  • The same law of self-preservation allows a starving man to take what does not belong to him according to human laws, if it is necessary for his life.

  • Human laws we must obey, unless they infringe upon the prerogative of God and upon conscience; to such we must refuse obedience, and count it an honour to suffer as Daniel and the Hebrew youths.

  • To give up or shrink from his profession of Christ, by embracing the national forms and submitting his conscience to human laws, he dared not.

  • Therefore there was no need of human laws.

  • In this sense nothing hinders the natural law from being changed: since many things for the benefit of human life have been added over and above the natural law, both by the Divine law and by human laws.

  • But these things are seen to be changed by human laws.

  • We are advocating the cause of civil government, of the stability and authority of human laws, when we make every thing rest on the authority of God, and when we limit every human power by subordinating it to him.

  • All that can be hoped, indeed, either in the construction or in the administration of human laws, is an approximation, more or less close, to the great principles of natural justice.

  • The very sanctity of human laws requires it.

  • Hence it follows, that the first and primary end of human laws is to maintain and regulate these absolute rights of individuals.

  • For actions being the only evidence of intentions, intentions can never of themselves alone without such acts be the object of human laws.

  • To accomplish this, he works through both religious and secular authorities, moving them to the enforcement of human laws in defiance of the law of God.

  • It is this consciousness which, in defiance of human laws, has sustained so many martyrs in tortures and flames.

  • When the protection of human laws shall be withdrawn from those who honor the law of God, there will be, in different lands, a simultaneous movement for their destruction.


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