It is the glory of the Gospel Charter and the Christian Constitution,
that its Author and Head is the Spirit of Truth, Essential Reason as
well as Absolute and Incomprehensible Will. Like a just Monarch, he
refers even his own causes to the Judgment of his high Courts. He has
his King's Bench in the Reason, his Court of Equity in the Conscience:
_that_ the Representative of his majesty and universal justice, _this_
the nearest to the King's heart, and the dispenser of his particular
decrees. He has likewise his Court of Common Pleas in the
Understanding, his Court of Exchequer in the Prudence. The Laws are
_his_ Laws. And though by Signs and Miracles he has mercifully
condescended to interline here and there with his own hand the great
Statute-book, which he had dictated to his Amanuensis, Nature; yet has
he been graciously pleased to forbid our receiving as the _King's_
Mandates aught that is not stamped with the Great Seal of the
Conscience, and countersigned by the Reason.