Christ's fishermen should not meddle with men's law, for men' s law contains sharp stones and trees by which the net of God is broken, and the fish wend out of the world.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
What did Christ really do? He hung out with hard-drinking fishermen.
But men never violate the laws of God without suffering the consequences, sooner or later.
While we are under the tyranny of Priests, it will ever be their interest, to invalidate the law of nature and reason, in order to establish systems incompatible therewith.
The enemies of the Christian religion and the Law of God confuse law with faith.
If men would as fervently seek after love and righteousness as they do after opinions, there would be no strife on earth, and we should be as children of one father, and should need no law or ordinance. For God is not served by any law, but only by obedience.
The laws of God, the laws of man he may keep that will and can; not I: let God and man decree laws for themselves and not for me.
Christianity is part of the common law.
Nature's laws have to supersede man's law.
The whole world knows that His glory has not been spread by force and weapons, but by poor fishermen.
What law, what reason can deny that gift so sweet, so natural that God has given a stream, a fish, a beast, a bird?