 The most high and sacred order of kings is of divine right, being the ordinance of God himself, founded in the prime laws of nature, and clearly established by express texts both of the Old and New Testament " " For any person or persons to set up, maintain,...  The Works of John Locke - Page 243by John Locke - 1823Full view - About this book
 | Samuel Rawson Gardiner - Great Britain - 1884 - 458 pages
...declared in a canon ordered to be read in churches four times in every year, "is of Divine right." It was founded in the prime laws of nature, and clearly established by express texts both of the Old and New Testaments, that God had Himself given authority to kings over all persons ecclesiastical or civil.... | |
 | Samuel Rawson Gardiner - Great Britain - 1891 - 486 pages
...declared in a canon ordered to be read in churches four times in every year, "is of Divine right." It was founded in the prime laws of nature, and clearly established by express texts both of the Old and New Testaments, that God had Himself given authority to kings over all persons ecclesiastical or civil.... | |
 | John Selden - Antiquarians - 1892 - 368 pages
...Constitutions and Canons Ecclesiastical of 1640, sec. 1, Concerning the Regal Power, the words used are ' The most high and sacred order of Kings is of divine right. ... A supreme power is given to this most excellent order by God himself in the Scriptures, which is... | |
 | John Selden - Table-talk - 1892 - 634 pages
...Constitutions and Canons Ecclesiastical of 1640, sec. i, Concerning the Regal Power, the words used are ' The most high and sacred order of Kings is of divine right. ... A supreme power is given to this most excellent order by God himself in the Scriptures, which is... | |
 | John Selden - Antiquarians - 1892 - 328 pages
...Constitutions and Canons Ecclesiastical of 1640, sec. 1, Concerning the Regal Power, the words used are ' The most high and sacred order of Kings is of divine right. ... A supreme power is given to this most excellent order by God himself in the Scriptures, which is... | |
 | Samuel Rawson Gardiner - Great Britain - 1894 - 468 pages
...declared in a canon ordered to be read in churches four times in every year, "is of Divine right." It was founded in the prime laws of nature, and clearly established by express texts both of the Old and New Testaments, that God had Himself given authority to kings over all persons ecclesiastical or civil.... | |
 | Henry Clay Sheldon - Church history - 1894 - 630 pages
...especially the latter. Card well's Synodalia, vol. i., gives the full text. The first Canon of 1640 says: "The most high and sacred order of kings is of divine right. . . . For subjects to bear arms against their kings, offensive or defensive, upon any pretence whatsoever,... | |
 | John Neville Figgis - Divine right of kings - 1896 - 348 pages
...as those which in 1640 gave expression to the sentiment of the great majority of the clergy :— " The most high and sacred order of kings is of Divine...established by express texts both of the Old and New Testaments. A supreme power is given to this most excellent order by God Himself in the Scripture,... | |
 | William Holden Hutton - Bishops - 1896 - 302 pages
...lines of Bodin, whom Laud himself on several occasions quotes as an authority, as well as of Hooker. " The most high and sacred order of kings is of Divine...established by express texts both of the Old and New Testaments." The regal authority is recognized as supreme, and the definition of the supremacy is a... | |
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