[439] Pater, Marius the Epicurean, Vol. II. ch. xxii. p. 127.
[440] 1 Cor. xiii. 3 (R.V.).
[441] Acts xi. 26-29; cp. also Acts iv. 34, 35, quoted above.
[442] Dubief, p. 11.
[443] II. 15.
[444] Overton, Life in the English Church, 1660-1714, Ch. v.
[445] Hooker, Eccl. Pol. VIII. i. 4. In all commonwealths, things spiritual ought above temporal to be provided for. And of things spiritual, the chiefest is religion. Cp. V. i. 2.
[446] We have already shewn reasons for thinking that though no doubt the State has a great co-ordinating and regulative function in regard to human life, it is not fitted for the part of the moral guide of mankind.
[447] Dicey, Law of the Constitution, second edition, 1886, lecture ii. p. 36, 'The principle of Parliamentary sovereignty means neither more nor less than this, namely, that Parliament thus defined has, under the English Constitution, the right to make or unmake any law whatever; and, further, that no person or body is recognised by the law of England as having a right to override or set aside the legislation of Parliament.'
[448] Westcott, Social Aspects of Christianity, ch. v. p. 76.