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102 not follow as a legitimate consequence. He must first prove this law to be a purely municipal law. This he has not even attempted. He assumes it; and, consequently, his whole argument rests on a petitio principii. It is what he charges on others, in the paragraph immediately preceding the one containing the quotation, on which our animadversions have been made, a mere begging of the question in debate.

Besides, we have, we think, proved this Levitical law to be, not municipal but ecclesiastical, and permanently binding on the Church, in every age; and that, even allowing it to be municipal, he has failed, in the application of his criteria, borrowed from Turrettin, to show the contrary.