Do not make it a kind of half-human, half-divine institution, which you may build up, but can not regulate.
Now, admit it to be a divine institution, if it is to be presented for our acceptance, it must be for the acceptance of our fallible reason.
It is claimed that the church is infallible because a divine institution--that is, because established by God.
By this means we declare them all to be merely prudential, not essential, not of divine institution.
He won two distinguished priests Alexis and Denis to his views, that Christ was nothing more than an ordinary Jewish prophet, that the Mosaic law is a divine institution and is of perpetual obligation.
She represented serfdom as a divine institution,[243] as a school of humility, as a road to future glory.
God loves chastity in man and in woman, and therefore he established marriage, it is a divine institution, lifting man above the brutes.
The founders of the Anglican Church had retained episcopacy as an ancient, a decent, and a convenient ecclesiastical polity, but had not declared that form of church government to be of divine institution.
Their whole history, far from countenancing the notion that succession in order of primogeniture is of divine institution, would rather seem to indicate that younger brothers are under the especial protection of heaven.
So in the days of African slavery, thousands believed it to be right--even a Divine institution.
In circulating our petition many refused to sign because they believed slavery a divine institution, and therefore did not wish to change the status of the slave.
In the period before Christ we have found that both Powers were originally of divine institution in the beginning of man, and that both belonged to him as a race.
In this point of view, it is apart from time, that is, he mentions it ideally as a divine institution.
And this, through the many mistaken notions at present prevailing among the different contending parties of professors in these nations, concerning the distinct ordinances of divine institution, viz.
It formally abolishes by law and usage a divine institution.
The family and the State are divine institutions, having sanction in the Bible; but slavery subverts a divine institution.
Established on a basis of crime and carried out in a spirit of fiendish ferocity, they dared call it a “divine institution.
Language is beyond doubt a divine institution, invented by Deity, and by him made known to the human race.
Horace, Pliny, Juvenal, and others, held the opinion that it was a divine institution, and only reached its present state after a long and gradual improvement of the human family.
But, 2, Why saith he that kneeling is a ceremony of divine institution?
Slavery a Divine institution, and the reason why, 85 to 88.
Relation of guardian and ward a Divine institution, 83 to 85.
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