 | 1822 - 382 pages
...dispute what God can do ; good Christians content themselves with his will revealed in his word; so it's presumption and high contempt in a subject to dispute...can do, or say that a king cannot do this, or that ; but rest in that which is the king's revealed will in the rubrick of the church in her liturgy, her... | |
 | Richard Carlile - Free thought - 1823 - 816 pages
...Christians content themselves with his will revealed in his word : so it is high contempt and presumption in a subject to dispute what a King can do, or say that a King cannot do this or tbut; and not to rest in that which is the King's revealed will in his law." No one, I presume, can... | |
 | James Nichols - Arminianism - 1824 - 474 pages
...themselves with his will revealed in his word : So it is presumption and high contempt in a suhject to dispute what a king can do, or say that a king cannot do THIS or THAT, This paragraph may teach us two things at least : First. Archhishop Usher, who is generally said to have... | |
 | Henry Hallam - Constitutional history - 1827 - 538 pages
...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...can do , or say that a king cannot do this or that. " King James's Works , p. 557. It is probable that his familiar conversation was full of this rodomontade... | |
 | Literature - 1902 - 874 pages
...prerogative of the Crown Is no subject for the tongue of a lawyer, nor Is lawful to be disputed." and that It is "presumption and high contempt In a subject...a king can do or say that a king cannot do this." Scarcely less strange to modern ears Is the speech of Charles I. when he bid the House remember that... | |
 | Henry Hallam - Constitutional history - 1849 - 800 pages
...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 say that a king can not do this or that"— King James's Works, p. 557. It is probable that his familiar conversation... | |
 | Gift books - 1849 - 362 pages
...law, is a satisfactory exposition of his principles on this head. Briefly they were these : that as it is atheism and blasphemy to dispute what God can do, so it is presumption and high contempt to dispute what a king can do, or say that a king cannot do this or that ; and he more emphatically... | |
 | James Goodeve Miall - 1851 - 382 pages
...limit his power ; which it is not lawful for the tongue of a lawyer nor any subject to dispute. As it is atheism and blasphemy to dispute what God can do, so it is presumption and high contempt to dispute what kings can do or say : it is to take away that mystical reverence that belongs to them... | |
 | Hannah Lawrance - 1852 - 274 pages
...saxteen, ' as good Christians content themselves wi' God's will as revealed in his word, so it is ane high contempt in a subject to dispute what a king can do, or say that a king canna do it.' " " Most undoubtedly, sire," replied the bishop ; while the gifted chancellor, alas !... | |
 | Thomas Roderick Dew - History - 1853 - 674 pages
...do: Good Christians content themselves with his will revealed in his word ; so it is presumptuous, and high contempt in a subject to dispute what a king...can do, or say that a king cannot do this or that." (CH 1, 452.) This ridiculous parallel just equals his blasphemous presumption in dedicating a work... | |
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that is no subject for the tongue of a lawyer, nor is it lawful to be disputed. 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... 
