 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;...  The Works of Charles Sumner - Sida 470efter Charles Sumner - 1875Obegränsad förhandsgranskning - Om den här boken
 | 1824 - 604 sidor
...are significantly explained in the following sentence of bis Speech m the Star-chamber, in 1616 : ' It is atheism and blasphemy to dispute what God can do ; good Christians content themselves with bis will revealed in his word : So it is 8 resumption and high contempt in a subject to ispnte what... | |
 | 1822 - 382 sidor
...state, for it is a transcendent matter and must not be sliberely talked of with over rash wilfulness. " It is atheism and blasphemy [to dispute what God can...themselves with his will revealed in his word; so it's presumption and high contempt in a subject to dispute what a king can do, or say that a king cannot... | |
 | Richard Carlile - 1823 - 816 sidor
...princes, and to take away the mystical reverence that belongs unto them that sit on the throne of God. It is Atheism and blasphemy to dispute what God can...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... | |
 | James Nichols - 1824 - 474 sidor
...the following sentence of his Speech in the Star-chamher, in l6lti : " It is atheism and hlasphemy to dispute what God can do ; good Christians content...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... | |
 | Henry Hallam - 1827 - 538 sidor
...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... | |
 | Edward Mammatt - 1837 - 370 sidor
...none."t And in a speech made in the Star Chamber he asserts, " It is atheism and blasphemy to declare what God can do ; good Christians content themselves...will revealed in his word : so it is presumption and contempt in a subject to dispute what a king can do, or say that a king cannot do this or that."t A... | |
 | 1902 - 874 sidor
...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 - 1849 - 800 sidor
...treaty of * " It is atheism and blasphemy." he says, in a speech made in the Star Chamber, 1616. " to dispute what God can do ; good Christians content...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... | |
 | 1849 - 362 sidor
...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 sidor
...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 !... | |
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