The doctrine of passive obedience to monarchs was preached in the pulpits and inculcated by the university of Oxford, which ordered the works of John Milton to be publicly burned.
In obedienceto the will of the Lord I came," said she, "and in his will I abide faithful unto death.
Sir Robert Filmer wrote that "not only in human laws, but even in divine, a thing may by the king be commanded contrary to law, and yet obedience to such a command is necessary.
When England protested against the proposed invasion of Belgium, she did so in obedience to the sacred principle enunciated by the Sovereign Pontiff.
The king kept in the same state of torpor, and his passive obedience to his wife made him, in the general opinion of Pigmy ladies, a model for all husbands.
The clever animal looked at me for a moment as if to fully take in what I had said, and then quietly turned round and entered the forest in obedience to my command.
In obedience to this direction four regiments were raised, the Provincial Congress placing them under the command of Colonels Alexander McDougall, Gozen Van Schaick, James Clinton, and Holmes.
Stirling, in obedienceto the order, started with two regiments for the Narrows.
You did not come to command my obedience in such a shameful thing: you had some small regard left for the unfortunate Caroline.
Fanchon Dodier, in obedienceto the order of her mistress, started early in the day to bear the message entrusted to her for La Corriveau.
She assured the Intendant of her perfect discretion and obedience to all his commands.
She had seen him at the first sober moment after his return from Tilly, in obedience to her summons.
When Ananias, in obedience to the commandment from the Lord, went to the afflicted and humbled Paul to tell him what he ought to do, he commanded him to arise and be baptized, and wash away his sins.
O] In obedience to that injunction, he retired to the woods to call upon the Lord, to learn from him which of all the religious sects he should join, for their division and contentions had perplexed his mind.
If that has been accomplished, then I feel assured that a faith has been established in the mind that will lead to repentance, to an effort to yield obedience to the laws of heaven.
In this category stood also the hearing of voices and obedience to monitions from the unseen.
These, which had been bestowed inobedience to the old laws, were to be claimed by their rightful owners.
Some of the women looked as if they interpreted the law of marital obedience in the strictest, even its harshest manner possible.
In obedience to their mother's directions, the children knelt at the bedside and said their prayers aloud, Timothy, the sorrowing parents, and Teddy himself mutely joining in the simple supplication.
And obedience to your Majesty's orders, I am deeper in it than he who stands there!
Our table was laid in obedience to my orders at such a distance from the men that they could not overhear our talk, and by-and-by I leant over to him.
After this, all the captains of the troops and other principal persons in Panama were convened; who all pledged their obedience to the president, engaging to keep the matter a profound secret till farther orders.
Soto asked the cacique why he permitted his subjects to behave in this manner; to which he made answer that many of them had thrown off their obedience because he had entered into friendship with the Spaniards.
By these several events, and others which have been formerly related, almost the whole of Peru had already returned to obedience before the arrival of the president in the kingdom.
The husbands readily obey these directions; but there are women in whom native modesty overpowers superstition, who refuseobedience to their husbands on such occasions, and bid defiance to the wizard.
Informed of the conquest of Peru by the Spaniards, owing to which they were freed from the submission they had come under to the Incas, they did not consider themselves bound to transfer their obedience to the present invaders.
Stealing clandestinely into the house during the father's absence, forcing the woman he professed to love into obedience by threats, till she knelt at his feet as one who pleads for mercy.
Now leave us," he said quietly; and, in obedience to his wish, the rest quitted the room.
The nerves and muscles grew tense, and after being borne for some distance straight out to sea, Harry Vine rose to the surface, and in obedience to the natural instinct of a good swimmer, struck out and turned to regain the pier.
The mystical union between Father and Son is supposed to be an incorporation of the soul of man, by a life of obedience and goodness, with the essential Divine nature from which as a parent it was derived.
By the repentance and obediencetaught by him, we are washed of the uncleanness and sensuality of our old life and enter upon the sweetness and purity of the new.
But there is another way of entering into fruitful obedienceto them.
He learns the rules of conduct, and duties of reverence and obedienceto the aged, who are thus, in tribes without formal government, placed under the protection of religion.
They were united by the deity within them; andobedience to his command bound them, however far apart, in common worship.
Indeed, these prominent citizens were models of obedience to discipline, and sought to render such prompt service as would be exemplary to the men of lesser note in the ranks.
I answered, "that a son was born in past years to thy wife Baleka, that I killed the child in obedience to thy word, and laid its body before thee.
I am not Mrs. Lyddell's daughter, and though I do expect a battle or two when I come out, it will not be a matter of obedience with me, as it is with Caroline.
How far was she called on to set her face against him, how far was she independent, how far was obedience to the Lyddells a duty?
Alrunen and prophet-maidens, how they charmed our old fighting, hunting forefathers into purity and sweet obedience among their Saxon forests?
They had always obeyed him, and he had made obedience so easy.
Necessity of obedience to laws and ordinances of the Gospel, 64.
It is evident from the foregoing that the baptism of Jesus was acceptable unto the Father, and was by Him characterized as an act of humility and obedience on the part of the Son, with which He was well pleased.
And no one will be eligible to enter any kingdom of glory in the abode of the blessed to which he is not entitled through obedience to law.
Necessity of obedience to the laws and ordinances of the Gospel.
It follows as a necessary consequence that if any soul has failed, either through ignorance or neglect, to render obedience to these requirements, the obligation is not removed by death.
Lie still, my dear," the mutterings died away; the childish instinct of obedience stilled the struggles; and there was something more like repose than had been seen all these weary months.
The attitude of soul which is called Islam--that of implicit surrender to the great God, of entire acquiescence in his decrees and entire obedience to his will--is good for all.
Everything exciting is kept at a distance, and men are trained in obedience and scrupulousness and self-denial.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "obedience" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
