It is atheism and blasphemy to dispute what God can do; good Christians content themselves with His will revealed in His Word, so it is presumption and high contempt in a subject to dispute what a King can do, or say that a King cannot do this or that,... Epochs and episodes of history - Seite 262von Epochs - 1882Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
| 1822 - 382 Seiten
...matter and must not be sliberely talked of with over rash wilfulness. " It is atheism and blasphemy [to dispute what God can do ; good Christians content...themselves with his will revealed in his word; so it's presumption and high contempt in a subject to dispute what a king can do, or say that a king cannot... | |
| Richard Carlile - 1823 - 816 Seiten
...mystical reverence that belongs unto them that sit on the throne of God. It is Atheism and blasphemy to dispute what God can do: good Christians content...themselves with his will revealed in his word : so it is high contempt and presumption in a subject to dispute what a King can do, or say that a King cannot... | |
| James Nichols - 1824 - 474 Seiten
...the following sentence of his Speech in the Star-chamher, in l6lti : " It is atheism and hlasphemy to dispute what God can do ; good Christians content...word : So it is presumption and high contempt in a suhject to dispute what a king can do, or say that a king cannot do THIS or THAT, This paragraph may... | |
| Henry Hallam - 1827 - 538 Seiten
...notorious. 1 " It is atheism and blasphemy, " he says in a speech made in the star-chamber, i6i6, " to dispute what God can do; good Christians content...can do , or say that a king cannot do this or that. " King James's Works , p. 557. It is probable that his familiar conversation was full of this rodomontade... | |
| Edward Mammatt - 1837 - 370 Seiten
...none."t And in a speech made in the Star Chamber he asserts, " It is atheism and blasphemy to declare what God can do ; good Christians content themselves...will revealed in his word : so it is presumption and contempt in a subject to dispute what a king can do, or say that a king cannot do this or that."t A... | |
| 1902 - 874 Seiten
...prerogative of the Crown Is no subject for the tongue of a lawyer, nor Is lawful to be disputed." and that It is "presumption and high contempt In a subject...a king can do or say that a king cannot do this." Scarcely less strange to modern ears Is the speech of Charles I. when he bid the House remember that... | |
| Henry Hallam - 1849 - 800 Seiten
...treaty of * " It is atheism and blasphemy." he says, in a speech made in the Star Chamber, 1616. " to dispute what God can do ; good Christians content...to dispute what a king can do, or say that a king can not do this or that"— King James's Works, p. 557. It is probable that his familiar conversation... | |
| 1849 - 362 Seiten
...that as it is atheism and blasphemy to dispute what God can do, so it is presumption and high contempt to dispute what a king can do, or say that a king cannot do this or that ; and he more emphatically adorned and recommended them by his peculiar graces of speech. An unimpeachable... | |
| Hannah Lawrance - 1852 - 274 Seiten
...saxteen, ' as good Christians content themselves wi' God's will as revealed in his word, so it is ane high contempt in a subject to dispute what a king can do, or say that a king canna do it.' " " Most undoubtedly, sire," replied the bishop ; while the gifted chancellor, alas !... | |
| Thomas Roderick Dew - 1853 - 674 Seiten
...court jure divino right. In a speech made in star chamber, in 1616, said, " It is atheism and blasphemy to dispute what God can do: Good Christians content...themselves with his will revealed in his word ; so it is presumptuous, and high contempt in a subject to dispute what a king can do, or say that a king cannot... | |
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