Charles I held very strongly the belief in the "divine right" of kings and, naturally, this belief did not harmonize with the aim of Parliament.
The feudal kings of Europe claimed a "divine right," and professed to reign by the "grace of God.
Ambrose, indeed, had rebuked Theodosius, and set in defiance the empress when she interfered with his spiritual functions; and Leo had laid the corner-stone of the Papacy by instituting a divine right to his decrees.
We differ from him in his view of the claims of the Pope, which he regarded as based on immutable truth and the fiat of Almighty power,--even as Richelieu looked upon the imbecile king whom he served as reigning by divine right.
Men very easily shape their notions of what government ought to be by their conception of divine right, {52} of that domain in which the actual legislator is God.
But without clerics there will be no God, and no king by divine right--that is to say, he cuts off the branch to which he clings.
The question as to whether there is such a thing as divine right of kings is not settled in this book.
Knox and the Reformers denied the divine right even to administer: they urged that the State should make the Kirk its administrators.
Thomassin, of course, holds that the Church has a divine right to tithes; but it is a divine right to administer, not to enjoy, them.
I say, Find me the true Könning, King, Able Man, and he has a divine right over me.
God's law is in that, I say, however the Parchment-laws may run: there is a Divine Right or else a Diabolic Wrong at the heart of every claim that one man makes upon another.
Much sorry stuff, written some hundred years ago or more, about the 'Divine right of Kings,' moulders unread now in the Public Libraries of this country.
Great courtiers were fawning at his feet listening to his pedantic wisdom, and humoring his theory of the "Divine right" of hereditary Kingship.
There was a reaction from the first triumph of divine right, and in 1592 the Act of Royal Supremacy was repealed, and the General Assembly succeeded in obtaining parliamentary sanction for the authority of the presbytery.
His father had by the discovery of the theory of "Divine right," prepared the way to throw off these Parliamentary trammels.
You have examined the question as to whether the Imám rules by divine right, or by popular election; you have had an exhaustive discussion on metaphysical subjects, in their principles and corollaries.
Before the Kings of England were heads of the Church we heard little of divine right, and some-times the Church itself was seen on the side of freedom; since that time, never.
Kingcraft rears up its terrific mass, muffled in the mantle of Legitimacy; its head cowled and crowned, aud dripping with the holy oil of Divine Right; its eyes glaring deadly hate to human happiness; its lips demanding worship for itself.
These are strange incidents for the advocates of Divine Right!
And just as little as the power of any one of these twelve extends over the others, so little does Peter have power over the other apostles, and the pope over other bishops and priests, by divine right.
Now if this power had been given to the pope by divine right, God would not have desisted; at some time it would have been fulfilled.
Sidenote: The Insincerity of the Roman Claims] I say, first of all: No one should be so foolish as to believe that it is the serious opinion of the pope and of all his Romanists and flatterers, that his great power is of divine right.
The Tudors, indeed, claimed to rule by divine right, but James went further than they in arguing for divine hereditary right.
What was the origin of the "divine right" of kings?
LOUIS XIV, THE KING Louis taught and put into practice the doctrine of divine right.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "divine right" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
