The most singular and strongest part of human authority is properly in the wisest and most virtuous; and those I trow are not the most universal.
But as the abjuration of human authority is the first principle of Lord Bacon’s philosophy, and the preparation for his logic, it was not expedient to say too much of its usefulness in the theological pursuits.
Now human authority at the strongest is but weak, but the multitude is the weakest part of human authority; it is the great patron of error, most easily abused and most hardly disabused.
The killing of the innocent by human authority, if it is done directly and intentionally, is always sinful, whether the cause be a private individual or society.
Apparent Cases of Dispensation from Natural Law made by Human Authority.
Such laws are just, even when made by human authority, since it is the common good that makes them necessary, and the natural law itself requires that the common good be promoted.
There is no such thing recognized in Scripture as human authority in any one branch of ministry in the church.
There is no such thing recognized in Scripture as human authority in appointing to the ministry.
There is positively no such thing in the New Testament as human authority to minister in the church of God.
They are also the only people who recognize no human authority, not even one's own, in matters of Christian faith and conscience.
When I believe and obey a human authority in matters of religion, I abdicate my own reason; but when I believe and obey God, I preserve it, follow it, do precisely what reason itself tells me I ought to do.
Sectarians and rationalists claim to be free, and to reason freely, because, as they pretend, they are bound by no human authority, and recognize no authority in faith but their own reason.
Father Hecker says, "Religion is a question between the soul and God; no human authority has, therefore, any right to enter its sacred sphere.
It is human authority acting in that sphere where only God's authority should be owned.
Why set up human authority, in any shape or form, in the house of God?
Christian reader, pause here, and deeply ponder this principle of human authority.
It may be said by the advocates of human authority, "How could an assembly ever get on without some human presidency?
These passages distinctly do away with the Sabbath, and place the observance of the Lord's day on the ground of human authority.
It is only a human law, resting on human authority.
For it does not belong to human authority to promise grace.
For, if they were matters of divine right, it was not lawful to change them by human authority.
The latter, though the first of human compositions, is nevertheless of human authority; the former is given by the inspiration of God.
No, my dear father, I value, more than I value life, the truth which bears the stamp of Divine authority, and care but little for the opinions which are alternately admitted and rejected by human authority.
Laws are sustained by no human authority, but by virtue of their derivation from the one law that is divine.
And this idea completely inverted the notion of human authority, for it inaugurated the reign of moral influence where all political power had depended on moral force.
If we must turn to human authority, call it what you please, in order to guarantee the Word of God to our souls, then that authority is higher and greater, safer and more trustworthy, than the Word which it guarantees.
If man speaks, if it be a mere question of human authority, then indeed we must judge, because man has no right to command.
If so, is it not the same old story of looking to human authority to confirm the Word of God?
It delivers the soul completely from the blinding power of self-will on the one hand, and of mere subjection to human authority on the other.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "human authority" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
