 | 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... | |
 | 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
...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 adorned and recommended them by his peculiar graces of speech. An unimpeachable... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Thomas Roderick Dew - History - 1853 - 692 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... 
