 | Hampton Lawrence Carson - 1914 - 44 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." A debate to the death was started. Hobbes in his Leviathan,... | |
 | 1914 - 620 pages
...declared 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." • For this reason he hated the Presbyterian Church... | |
 | James Harvey Robinson - 1915 - 498 pages
...ruler of England. " 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. 95. JAMES I books. Among them he published a work... | |
 | Estelle Ross - 1915 - 222 pages
...merely to set an example to his subjects. "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." The newly elected members of Parliament were no less emphatic... | |
 | David Henry Montgomery - 1915 - 602 pages
...no way from the people.1 " It is atheism and blasphemy," he said, " to dispute what God can do, ... so it is presumption and high contempt in a subject to dispute what a king can do." In making these utterances James seems to have entirely forgotten that he owed his throne to that act... | |
 | James Harvey Robinson - 1916 - 950 pages
...ruler of England. " 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. 95. JAMES I books. Among them he published a work... | |
 | Roscoe Lewis Ashley - 1916 - 788 pages
..." divine right " to rule. He declared, "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." James exercised the right to set aside laws by proclamations or in other ways, without considering... | |
 | Roscoe Lewis Ashley - 1918 - 806 pages
...divine right " to rule. He declared, "It is atheism and blasphemy to dispute what God can do ... kings." so it is presumption and high contempt in a subject to dispute what a king can do." It was not long before there was a sharp dispute between the king, ruling by divine right, and the... | |
 | American Bar Association - 1918 - 880 pages
...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... | |
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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;... 
