Mis-define the law of brotherly love by giving men a claim on their neighbors and you have destroyed freedom, justified despotism, and assumed that there can be a master mind, in an ordinary human being, as the mind of God.

Frederick Nymeyer
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The law of brotherly love is the basis of our belief that all men are created equal, that they are endowed with certain unalienable rights, and that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. It is also the basis for the belief that no man or group of men has the right to do wrong to another. Those who believe in this law act as if they believe in what it is saying. It is not enough to say you believe in it, you must act as if you believe in it.

Source: Progressive Calvinism. Volume I, 1955: Essays Against Sanctimony And Legalized Coercion

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