...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....

...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....

...read on Sunday in the place where he serves, " the following explanation of the regal power : That the most high and sacred order of kings is of DIVINE...God himself, founded in the prime laws of nature and revelation, by which the supreme power over all persons civil and ecclesiastical, is given to them...

...Constitutions and Canons Ecclesiastical of 1640, sec. 1, Concerning the Regal Power, the words used are ' The most high and sacred order of Kings is of divine right. ... A supreme power is given to this most excellent order by God himself in the Scriptures, which is...

...Constitutions and Canons Ecclesiastical of 1640, sec. i, Concerning the Regal Power, the words used are ' The most high and sacred order of Kings is of divine right. ... A supreme power is given to this most excellent order by God himself in the Scriptures, which is...

...Constitutions and Canons Ecclesiastical of 1640, sec. 1, Concerning the Regal Power, the words used are ' The most high and sacred order of Kings is of divine right. ... A supreme power is given to this most excellent order by God himself in the Scriptures, which is...

...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...