Until the content of a belief is made clear, the appeal to accept the belief on faith is beside the point, for one would not know what one has accepted. The request for the meaning of a religious belief is logically prior to the question of accepting that belief on faith or to the question of whether that belief constitutes knowledge.
William BlackstoneNo outward doors of a man's house can in general be broken open to execute any civil process; though in criminal cases the public safety supersedes the private.
William BlackstoneThere is nothing which so generally strikes the imagination and engages the affections of mankind, as the right of property.
William BlackstoneThe most universal and effectual way of discovering the true meaning of law, when the words are dubious, is by considering the reason and spirit of it; or the cause which moved the legislator to enact it. for when this reason ceased, the law itself ought likewise to cease with it.
William Blackstone