...statesmen and lawyers pronounce, that " the Common Prayer has been made, both by statute and common law, a part and parcel of the law of the land, and that therefore to do any thing which is calculated to bring any part of the Common Prayer into contempt, is to commit...

...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 of Christianity...

...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,...

...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...

...has not supported a tittle of his charge against me ! Nothing' of it can he support. He will tell you that Christianity is part and parcel of the law of the land, but how does he prove it? His assertion is no better than that of another man. He cannot show you when...

...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....

...framework of the Constitution, so that it is declared in the highest legal authority, that Protestant Christianity is part and parcel of the law of the land, and that whoever offends against it offends against the law. These acts were unquestionably wrong, for they...

...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...

...rest here? The planters profess Christianity; the government is declared to be Christian ; we are told that " Christianity is part and parcel of the law of the land;" both Houses of Parliament have Christian worship before they proceed to business : if, therefore, the...