 | Vincent Arthur Smith - 1912 - 392 páginas
...condensing his theory in the maxim, ' No bishop, no king.' He was 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... | |
 | James Phinney Baxter - 1915 - 790 páginas
..."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 dispute what a King can do, or say that a King cannot do this or that." 1 All men are the creatures of heredity and environment, and... | |
 | Corinne Comstock Weston, Janelle Renfrow Greenberg - 2003 - 440 páginas
...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 páginas
...wing of greatness', since 'if a king be resolute to be a tyrant, all you can do will 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... | |
 | Robert P. Merrix, Nicholas Ranson - 1992 - 320 páginas
...(1989) uncovered important depositions for the winter of 1605-06 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 to dispute what a King can do, or say that a King cannot... | |
 | David Nicholls - 1994 - 342 páginas
...atheists. 'lt is atheism or blasphemy', he wrote, 'to dispute what God can do ... it is presumption and high contempt in a subject to dispute what a king can do, or say that a king cannot do this, or that.'2 John Locke, whose ideas on kingship were rather different,... | |
 | Eileen Jorge Allman - 1999 - 228 páginas
...of parliament" (1991, 55); that he informed the Commons, who 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 to dispute what a king can do or say that a king cannot... | |
 | Jonathan Scott - 2000 - 564 páginas
...him a 'Doge of Venice ... No Christians but papists and puritans were ever of that opinion . . . [And 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... | |
 | Frank Meisel, Peter J Cook - 2000 - 349 páginas
...Monarchies" (1598). Later, in 1616, in an address to the judges, he stated that ". . . it is presumption and high contempt in a subject to dispute what a King can do, or say that a King cannot do this or that, but rest with that which is the King's revealed will in his... | |
 | Isaac Backus, David Weston - 2001 - 564 páginas
...princes, and to take away the mystical reverence that belongs to those who sit in the (krone of God; .... it is atheism and blasphemy to dispute what God can do ; .... so is it presumption and high contempt In a subject to dispute what a king can do or say ;" he, the year... | |
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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;... 
