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sustained by a similar statute in their codes on the general subject, are we to expunge it from the inspired code? Shall we say, This statute, enacted by infinite wisdom, which perfectly knows the nature of man, and all his relations, and how to promote the purity of domestic life, as well as good morals in the community, cannot bind us, because it has not received the sanction of heathen legislators, who had no better guide than natural reason, unaided by divine revelation, and darkened and misled by corrupt and sensual passions? Are the laws of men to sit in judgment on the laws of God? Were all the precepts in the Decalogue to be tried in this way, how many would be expunged? Would not the Puritan "look in vain through the Gentile world," for a law to sanction the fourth commandment, a law requiring the sanctification of the Sabbath? Would he not look in vain for a law to sustain the second commandment, which prohibits the worship of God by images? Would he not look in vain through the whole heathen world for a law asserting the Unity of God, and forbidding men to worship more gods than the one only living and true God? In the absence