 | Charles Sumner - 1900 - 376 pages
...sometimes 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." l Thus wrote one who was called "the wisest fool of Christendom." And so... | |
 | Samuel Rawson Gardiner - 1902 - 1118 pages
...prerogative of the Crown," he declared, " that is no subject for the tongue of a lawyer, nor is it lawful to be disputed. It is atheism and blasphemy...that which is the king's will revealed in his law." What James meant was that there must be in every state a power above the law to provide for emergencies... | |
 | Philip Van Ness Myers - 1903 - 708 pages
...can in no way be questioned or limited by people, priest, or parliament. These are his own words : " It is atheism and blasphemy to dispute what God can...can do, or say that a king cannot do this or that." 2 This theory of government of course placed the king alxsve Parliament and the laws. Indeed, James... | |
 | James Harvey Robinson - 1903 - 812 pages
...lawyer, nor is it lawful to be disputed. It is atheism and blasphemy to dispute what God can do : . . . so it is presumption and high contempt in a subject...can do, or say that a king cannot do this or that." The king, James claimed, could make any kind of law or statute that he thought meet, without any advice... | |
 | Augustus Charles Thompson - 1903 - 334 pages
...than his. " It is presumption," said he, "and high contempt in a subject to dispute what a king may do, or say that a king cannot do this or that." But such exuberant insolence was destined to rough abatement. Exaction, perfidy, profligacy, were to encounter... | |
 | Elwin Lawrence Page - 1905 - 288 pages
...them that sit in the throne of God. Secondly, that you keep yourselves within your own benches. ... As for the absolute prerogative of the crown, that...this or that; but rest in that which is the king's revealed will in his law." * 1 Speech of James I before parliament, March 21, 1610. Prothero, Sd. Stat.... | |
 | William Hunt, Reginald Lane Poole - 1907 - 566 pages
...is no subject for the CHAP, tongue of a lawyer, nor is it lawful to be disputed. It is atheism IIL and blasphemy to dispute what God can do ; good Christians...this or that, but rest in that which is the king's word revealed in his law." The other judges might pass with a rebuke, but the king could not pardon... | |
 | 1905 - 964 pages
...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...or that; but rest in that which is the King's will as revealed in his law." Stripped of James' verbiage, the meaning of this declaration of principle... | |
 | Henry Cabot Lodge - 1906 - 776 pages
...prerogative of the Crown," he declared, " that is no subject for the tongue of a lawyer, nor is it lawful to be disputed. It is atheism and blasphemy...that which is the king's will revealed in his law." What James meant was that there must be in every state a power above the law to provide for emergencies... | |
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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... 
