The submission to civil authority, which nature requires of us, must be paid in the coin of obedience to the actual established "powers that be.
Origin and Extent of Civil Authority an advantageous substitute for the chapter on the State in this work.
That many of the clergymen of the day possess an aspiring spirit is evident from the several attempts they have made to get some of their institutions incorporated by civil authority.
For nearly two centuries the most popular and influential writers on government have rejected the divine origin and ground of civil authority, and excluded God from the state.
Hence they could not assert the divine origin of government, or civil authority, without supposing it supernaturally founded, and excluding all human and natural agencies from its institution.
What do the Scriptures indicate as the proper sphere and legitimate work of civil authority?
Here whatever pertains to these solemnities, is entrusted to, and required of, the ministers of the Lord, without the intervention of civil authority.
If the meeting of ministers failed to agree on any matter brought before them, they were enjoined to call in the Elders to assist them; and a final appeal was always allowed to the Signory, or civil authority.
Thus the subject under consideration teaches the establishment of civil authority in the world, which did not exist before the flood.
The fearful results of enforcing the observances of the church by civil authority, the inroads of Spiritualism, the stealthy but rapid progress of the papal power,—all will be unmasked.
The minds of the people, already beginning to throw off the yoke of the papacy, were also becoming impatient under the restraints of civil authority.
Every secular government that attempts to regulate or enforce religious observances by civil authority, is sacrificing the very principle for which the evangelical Christians so nobly struggled.
Only in flagrant violation of these safeguards to the nation’s liberty, can any religious observance be enforced by civil authority.
The Tibetans and Chinese formerly ate all who were executed by civil authority.
All violations of custom and law led to fines; all need of civil authority made it necessary to pay fees.
The crime of treason or rebellion always excites the vanity and fierce revenge of civil authority.
They seek remarriage in other, less scrupulous sects, or by civil authority, or they change domicile in order to get a divorce.
The persons and estates of church-officers, and all that they have in this world, are subject to civil authority.
I think we ought now to perceive that the annexation of the warrant of civil authority to the religious embassy of the Irish Church, discredits in lieu of recommending it in the view of the Irish people.
Hence was introduced first of all the notion of a civil authority.
If civil authority was to be upheld, wherein lay the meaning of St. Paul's many boasts of the new levelling spirit of the Christian religion?
Among these institutions were those same three (civil authority, slavery, private property), which the Fathers had come to justify by so different a method of argument.
Yet at the same time we know that the Christian truth of the essential equality of the whole human race was by some so construed as to be incompatible with the notion of civil authority.
Such resistance, indeed, is not to be punished, as in other cases, by the arm of civil authority.
They covered a most delicate and complicated subject, namely, the gradual transfer of control from military to civil authority in a country extensive regions of which were still in open rebellion.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "civil authority" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
