Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1850-1854, 1851-09-05
EVANDER.
For tie kenosha Telegram
Law,

]
There are several kinds of law. a few only of
which we here make mention. The first which
we will notice, is the Divine Law. This is the
aw-the law supreme. 1t descends to us from
the inner courts of the skies, and is glorious
transcript of the great statute-book of eternity.
! Law Is lite. This is especially true of the Di-
! vine Law, as revealed to man in the Scriptures
ottruIh. Obedance to Its Just mandates, secures
! first spiritual life TO the soul and also promotes
| emnenty the best interests of man with tong
| hte upon The earth, agreeable to promise. The
/ Divine Law is also light-hcauteOus cheering
and glorious. All other law here borroWs its
lusture but with faint ald feeble ray is lost
amid the supreme splendor of the Divine 1t is
light shining in dark place achereunlo tce do
yell to tahe heed.
To behold the supremacy and glory that in
invests It, we should consider its Justice its pn-
| rlty, its holiness "rhe law of the Lrod'-and
! this, the law of which we now speak-''s per-
! feet converting the soul" It's the most fin
| lshcd and complete code of laws ever given to
! man-lt Is the glorious transcript of the Divine
will Its holy, just, good, and spiritual Rom
vii, II, "A. None who have attentively consd-
cred it, can in any wise doubt its divine origin or
its inherent holiness. For we know the law is
spiritual The Divine law, therefore, by every
living, moving, rationa! being, on Gods glorious
tootstool, should be respected, reyerenccd, loved
and obayed. Nor should this with Us be mat
ter merely of choice God has commanded Us
TO keep his perfect law, ard it becomes binding
and obligatory. Therefore, give us understand
ing O Lord, and we shall keep thy law-we will
keep thy law continually forever and ever"
2. The Moral Law This is indeed part of,
and is Intimately blended with the Divine Law
1t is true that some of the Levitical rituals and
laws of the AaroniC Priesthood have been dsan-
nulled or are comprehended under the law of the
New Testament dispensation; yet it is alike true
that the sanctions of the moral law remain in
full force to the present day. Here then there
is no controversy, nor need there be any as the
truth OF what we here aver is obvious to every
biblical student and every candid enquirer after
the truth. Moral turpitnde, therefore, attaches
to all who may willfully dsobey its true and sa-
cred mandates. Justice and Judgment both re-
quire 4 careful and continual observance of all
that is written OF the moral law of God, as nee
essary for our preservation, our prosperity, our
mutual good, and our eternal Well-bcing. Let
therefore the devout and prayerful desire of each
rcspectant of Gods word be, 80 unite my heart
to keep thy law" For thy law is my counsel
or and my delight"
3. Civil Law. Human law is that enacted by
man, and sanctioned in his courts of judicature.
Under the accommodating phrase ofhuman law,
we comprehend and may name that of eccleSias-
teal and civil law. OF the former, we will not
now speak; but of the latter, permit us to pre-
sent few fragmentary thoughts, as compare
tive stranger, wcll-wshcr and law-abidng so
journer among you. Civil law grows out OF, and
is based (when just and good upon the supreme
and divine law of God. Now all human law is
designed to be founded in justice and equity
And if not always thus founded, it is that the
Divine Law has been duly respected and init
matcly consulted? But when the civil law is
based, as it always should be, upon the divine and
growing naturally out of its Just and righteous
requirements it follows as an admirable Sc
quence, that it must also in modified sense be
Just and righteous and good Hence it becomes
obi gatory for every lawrcsp ecting and aw-abid-
ing citizen, TO esteem and obey it in connection
with the divine.
He should be ready and willing to "be subject
to the higher powers, and XIV acquipsce in
the Just and equitable demands of the civil law.
Those who thus obey the laws of their country
as good citizens, in a happy sense, obey also the
law supreme, the one requiring the other Hence,
it follows that those who will fully disobey and
contemn the Just and equitable law of man like
wise dlsobey the mandates of heaven. OF such
God will take the most ready cogniZauce, and
reward them with the most impartial scrutiny
and justice. Therefore. it is evident that against
every willing and malicious ccntcmner of the
civil law, the penal sanctions of the civil right
eou> and just law, as approved and sanctioned oil
God. should be duly and unremttingly enforced
Then shall civil law be respected the law of
God rghteously approved and honored; the
veal OF society everywhere promoted in the ends
of the earth, uii the world shall know crime no
more, bat rctlourIsh amid the smiles of benf-
cent God as in the days of mans primeyal par
adise
80 thou whose purity never brook,
Thy laws Infracion-wh">e eye cannot look
On sin without adherence teach
To- LAY hrs warning t. our souls and bow
Humbly 10 thee. that may attain
the blessed rewards OF a due and willing ODE
dlence to law, both in this and also in the world
10 come!
LEGALITY