 | 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...this, or that ; but rest in that which is the king's revealed will in the rubrick of the church in her liturgy, her ceremonies, her bishops — and in me... | |
 | Richard Carlile - 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 - 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 - 1827 - 538 pages
...notorious. 1 " It is atheism and blasphemy, " he says in a speech made in the star-chamber, i6i6, " to dispute what God can do; good Christians content...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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Thomas Roderick Dew - 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 - 1853 - 694 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... | |
 | Charles Sumner - 1871 - 564 pages
...in the name of a king and sometimes of a people. Listen to what King James of England once wrote: " It is atheism and blasphemy to dispute what God can...this or that : but rest in that which is the king's revealed will in his law." 1 Thus wrote one who was called "the wisest fool of Christendom." And so... | |
 | Henry Hallam - 1878 - 1006 pages
...parallel in some other respects. Gross drunkenness is imputed even to some of the Gifford, who remembered. dispute what God can do ; good Christians content...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,... | |
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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 say that a king cannot do this or that... 
