In the Jewish theocracy, I admit; because the fact of idolatry was a crime, namely,
crimen læsæ majestatis
, an overt act subversive of the fundamental law of the state, and breaking asunder the
vinculum et copulam unitatis et cohæsionis
. But in making the position general, Taylor commits the
sophisma omissi essentialis
; he omits the essential of the predicate, namely, criminal; — not its being a fact rendering it punishable, but its being a criminal fact.
Ib.
s. iii.
Oh that this great and good man, who saw and has expressed so large a portion of the truth, — (if by the Creed I might understand the true Apostles', that is, the Baptismal Creed, free from the additions of the first five centuries, I might indeed say the whole truth), — had but brought it back to the great original end and purpose of historical Christianity, and of the Church visible, as its exponent, not as a