 | James Heron - 1908 - 256 pages
...Christians content themselves with His will revealed in His Word ; so it is presumption and contempt to dispute what a king can do, or say that a king cannot do this or that." The chief reason of his dislike of the Puritans was their determined opposition to such an autocratic... | |
 | Erica Quest - 1908 - 336 pages
...declared that "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." During nearly one-half of this twenty-two years' reign... | |
 | Alfred Maurice Low - 1909 - 456 pages
...expressed,—" 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," — but she was fully as strong in her faith in the divine right and omnipotence of kings. This was... | |
 | Raymond Garfield Gettell - 1911 - 586 pages
...and to take away the mystical reverence that belongs unto them that sit on the throne of God. . . . It is atheism and blasphemy to dispute what God can...themselves with his will revealed in his word, so it is THEORIES OF THE STATE 119 presumption and high contempt in a subject to dispute what a king can do,... | |
 | Charles Eyre Pascoe - 1911 - 124 pages
...Christendom.' " " 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." From a Star Chamber declaration of James I., touching the... | |
 | William Muir - 1911 - 296 pages
...declared that ' 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.' Not only so ; but Convocation in its Book of Canons denounced... | |
 | Vincent Arthur Smith - 1912 - 392 pages
...bold enough to declare officially that ' as it is atheism and blasphemy to dispute what God can do, 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 '. Courtly flatterers maintained that ' the king is above... | |
 | Hester Dorsey Richardson - 1913 - 644 pages
...therefore, that the monarch should accept this excess of power and openly assert in the star chamber: "It is atheism and blasphemy to dispute what God can...do; good Christians content themselves with His will as revealed in His work. So it is presumption and high contempt in a subject to dispute what a king... | |
 | 1913 - 274 pages
...it is atheism and blasphemy to dispute what God can do," said James, "so it is a 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."— "Short History of the English Peo fie," by JR Green,... | |
 | James Harvey Robinson, James Henry Breasted, Charles Austin Beard - 1914 - 846 pages
...England, kmg's cla1ms « It is atheism and blasphemy," he declared, " to dispute what God can do ; . . . so it is presumption and high contempt in a subject...can do, or say that a king cannot do this or that." James was a learned man and fond of writing FIG. 226. JAMES I books. Among them he published a work... | |
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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;... 
