Hooker speaks of, when, with the splendid magnificence of eastern metaphor, he says, that " her seat is the bosom of God, and her voice the harmony of the world. The Library of American Biography - Page 47 edited by - 1836 Full view - About this book
...legislature can annul or contravene these. They constitute that higher law of which Hooker said, " Her throne is the bosom of God, and her voice the harmony of the world." The Bible is a teacher of morals. If its moral precepts were collected and arranged in the order of...