Has competent authority repealed the unwritten law XE “law: unwritten law” ?
The law of Christ was originally promulgated orally, and reduced to practice in that form. For many years the entire church was so governed‑and as the written law XE “law: written law” is conceded not to contain many and important truths‑before we can assume that the entire unwritten code has been repealed, the proofs should be of the highest and most conclusive character. The intention thus to mutilate a great system of law, given for the government of the same perpetual institution, and given by a Divine Legislator, Who could make His law perfect at the beginning without the necessity of subsequent change, ought to be shown by proofs remarkably clear and full. For it would seem a strange anomaly, that a lawgiver of such a character should so defectively arrange His government, that His code should become incomplete in a very few years after its promulgation; thus leaving the subsequent subjects of His kingdom XE “Kingdom of Christ” not so well governed as those at the beginning. Such
