 | Thomas Roderick Dew - 1853 - 674 pages
...ambassador, in a letter to his court jure divino right. In a speech made in star chamber, in 1616, said, " It is atheism and blasphemy to dispute what God can...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... | |
 | Thomas Roderick Dew - 1853 - 694 pages
...ambassador, in a letter to his court jure divitw right.' In a speech made in star chamber, in 1616, said, " It is atheism and blasphemy to dispute what God can...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... | |
 | Henry Hallam - 1859 - 746 pages
...about a 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...it is presumption and high contempt in a subject to disputo what a king can do, or say that a king can not do this or that."—King James's Works, p. 557.... | |
 | John Richard Green - 1874 - 1076 pages
...As it is atheism and blasphemy to dispute what God can dp," said James, "so it is presumption and a high contempt in a subject to dispute what a King can do, or to say that a King cannot do this or that." A few years after his accession his words had startled... | |
 | 1918 - 498 pages
...he declared : "As it is atheism and blasphemy to dispute what God can do, so it is presumption and a high contempt in a subject to dispute what a king can do, or to say that a king cannot do this or that." He reduced the doctrine of the divine right of kings to... | |
 | Mary Elsie Thalheimer - 1875 - 316 pages
...declaring in the Star Chamber, "As it is atheism and blasphemy to dispute what God can do, so it is high contempt in a subject to dispute what a king can do, or to say that the king can not do this or that." 306. In religious matters he was especially arbitrary.... | |
 | Mary Elsie Thalheimer - 1875 - 318 pages
...declaring in the Star Chamber, '' As it is atheism and blasphemy to dispute what God can do, so it is high contempt in a subject to dispute what a king can do, or-to say that the king can not do this or that." 306. In religious matters he was especially arbitrary.... | |
 | Henry Hallam - 1876 - 756 pages
...he eaye, in a speech made in the Star Chamber, 1C1G, " to dispate what God can do; good Christiana content themselves with his will revealed in his word...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... | |
 | Thomas Erskine May - 1877 - 582 pages
...reminded them that they held their 1 James himself said in the Star Chamber, ' It is presumption and a high contempt in a subject to dispute what a king can do, or to say that a king cannot do this or that.' 368 ENGLAND. CHAP, privileges solely bv his grace. They... | |
 | Henry Hallam - 1878 - 1006 pages
...parallel in some other respects. Gross drunkenness is imputed even to some of the Gifford, who remembered. 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,... | |
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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 to say that a king cannot do this or that;... 
