1802 to the MA grand juries...

For ours is a government of laws, and not of men. Originating in the voluntary compact of a people, who, in that very instrument, profess the Christian religion. It may be considered not as republic Rome was, a pagan, but a Christian republic. This religion embraces the Bible as the word, will, and law of the universal Sovereign. The laws of that system, therefore, must be respected as of high authority in all our courts.