...declared in a canon ordered to be read in churches four times in every year, "is of Divine right." It was founded in the prime laws of nature, and clearly established by express texts both of the Old and New Testaments, that God had Himself given authority to kings over all persons ecclesiastical or civil....

...especially the latter. Card well's Synodalia, vol. i., gives the full text. The first Canon of 1640 says: "The most high and sacred order of kings is of divine right. . . . For subjects to bear arms against their kings, offensive or defensive, upon any pretence whatsoever,...

...as those which in 1640 gave expression to the sentiment of the great majority of the clergy :— " The most high and sacred order of kings is of Divine...established by express texts both of the Old and New Testaments. A supreme power is given to this most excellent order by God Himself in the Scripture,...

...lines of Bodin, whom Laud himself on several occasions quotes as an authority, as well as of Hooker. " The most high and sacred order of kings is of Divine...established by express texts both of the Old and New Testaments." The regal authority is recognized as supreme, and the definition of the supremacy is a...

...terms, as those which in 1640 gave expression to the sentiment of the great majority of the clergy:— " The most high and sacred order of kings is of Divine...established by express texts both of the Old and New Testaments. A supreme power is given to this most excellent order by God Himself in the Scripture,...

...dogma in the Lambeth Articles: and another (Laud) in 1640 would have tied us to the proposition that " the most high and sacred order of kings is of Divine Right." More recently the ardour of evangelistic zeal or the no less powerful passion for ecclesiastical tradition...

...be found in words, probably in Laud's own writing, written at the culmination of his power, in 1640. "The most high and sacred order of kings is of Divine...being the ordinance of God Himself, founded in the laws of nature, and clearly established by express texts both of the Old and New Testaments." That...

...be found in words, probably in Laud's own writing, written at the culmination of his power, in 1640. “The most high and sacred order of kings is of Divine...being the ordinance of God Himself, founded in the laws of nature, and clearly established by express texts both of the Old and New Testaments.” That...

...be found in words, probably in Laud's own writing, written at the culmination of his power, in 1640. "The most high and sacred order of kings is of Divine...being the ordinance of God Himself, founded in the laws of nature, and clearly established by express texts both of the Old and New Testaments." That...

...originally descending from Him and depending upon Hun." 2 The Canons of June 30, 1640, affirmed that the most high and sacred order of kings is of divine right, being the ordinance of Cod Himself, founded in the prime laws of nature and revelation, by which the 1 Neal, History of the...