 | Herbert George Wells - 1921 - 1756 pages
...I of England (1603) declared that “As it is atheism a!m(li)lasplmem'v to dispute what God can do; so it is presumption and high contempt in a subJect to dispute what a king can do, or sa¿' timat a king cannot do this or that.” In practice. 1mowev¿r, he found, and Imis son Cimarles... | |
 | John William Allen - 1644 - 700 pages
...illimitable authority. The King, he declared, sits in the throne of God and it is something like blasphemy 'to dispute what a king can do or say that a king cannot do this or that'.1 In the Trew Law of Free Monarchies* he spoke of a King as 'making statutes and ordinances .... | |
 | George deF. Lord - 1963 - 608 pages
...prerogative of the Crown, that is no subject for the tongue of a lawyer, nor is lawful to be disputed. It is atheism and blasphemy to dispute what God can...high contempt in a subject to dispute what a King cannot do, or say that a King cannot do this or that, but rest with that which is the King's revealed... | |
 | James Phinney Baxter - 1915 - 790 pages
...tenets. Said James I, "The absolute prerogative of the Crown is no subject for the tongue of a lawyer. It is presumption and high contempt in a subject to...can do, or say that a King cannot do this or that." 1 All men are the creatures of heredity and environment, and the fruit of their endeavors, if it escapes... | |
 | Corinne Comstock Weston, Janelle Renfrow Greenberg - 2003 - 440 pages
...indisputable. Indeed, just as it was 'atheism and blasphemy to dispute what God can do', so was it 'presumption and high contempt in a subject to dispute what a king can do'. But a king, as head of the commonwealth, had obligations to his subjects. One was to interpret and... | |
 | Linda Levy Peck - 2005 - 408 pages
...not hinder him'. As 'it is atheism and blasphemy to dispute what God can do', he declared in 1616, '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'.29 Such sentiments - and, of course, the king's actions... | |
 | Robert P. Merrix, Nicholas Ranson - 1992 - 320 pages
...that bear on Macbeth, James notes that "As it is atheism and blasphemy 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." Yet such a comment reflects the man who had spent the long journey from his acceptance as King of England... | |
 | David Nicholls - 1994 - 342 pages
...authority as political atheists. 'lt is atheism or blasphemy', he wrote, 'to dispute what God can do ... it is presumption and high contempt in a subject to...king can do, or say that a king cannot do this, or that.'2 John Locke, whose ideas on kingship were rather different, also perceived an analogy between... | |
 | Charel Bastiaan Krol - 1994 - 284 pages
...and blasphemie to dispute what God can doe: good Christians content themselues with his will reuealed in his word. so, it is presumption and high contempt in a Subiect, to dispute what a King can doe, or say th.ii a King cannot doe this, or that; but rest in... | |
 | Eileen Jorge Allman - 1999 - 228 pages
...questioned him about impositions, that as "'it is atheism and blasphemy 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'" (66); that he tore up the Commons' Protestation on their privileges, written in response to his declaring... | |
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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;... 
