Simon Greenleaf Quote

But if they are well-founded and just, they can be no less than the high requirements of heaven, addressed by the voice of God to the reason and understanding of man, concerning things deeply affecting his relations to his sovereign, and essential to the formation of his character and of course to his destiny, both for this life and for the life.

An Examination of the Testimony of the Four Evangelists, by the Rules of Evidence Administered in Courts of Justice (ed. 1846)