... imitate the inconceivable excellencies of God' (p. 80). Throughout the work, onemay detect a further analogy between Natural Law on the one hand andcommon law and civil law on the other: the former ... oftyranny) the focus may be on the innocent victims rather than on the malefactor: 'Likewise we may exhort men to take pity of the fatherless, the widow, and the oppressed innocent, if we set before ... matter what the true facts are,this is what the law will deem them to be.' A woman did not knowsomething, and yet the law says it is reasonable that she should have, andtherefore, for its...