Passive obedience to the higher powers is inculcated apparently rather for its prudence than its duty.
Let us, however, observe that this advocate of the people's supremacy over their sovereign's was himself the vowed slave to passive obedience, and the indefeasible and absolute rule of the sacerdotal suzerain.
In the discussions of the dangers and mischiefs of such a state of insubordination, the poet, adopting the prevalent notions of the divine right and the authority of "the absolute king," inculcates the doctrine of passive obedience.
He does not wait, in the helplessness of passive obedience, for his teacher to tell him what he is to do and how he is to do it.
If the child, like the man, is to be "saved" by passive obedience, his teacher must keep his every action and operation under close and constant supervision.
He promised to maintain episcopacy, and to put down conventicles, and brought into Parliament a new Test Act, which was to swear every one to the king's supremacy, and to passive obedience.
Shaftesbury, since his discharge from the Tower, had seen with terror the rapid rising of the Tory influence, the vindictive addresses from every part of the country against him, and the undisguised cry of passive obedience.
Beaumont: "You belong to a church whose doctrine is passive obedience.
For I take the Doctrines of Passive Obedience, &c.
Others, who have so learnedly treated of the more useful Doctrine of Passive Obedience, Divine Right, &c.
But the heart of man is made to reconcile contradictions; and this contradiction is not greater than that between passive obedience and the resistance employed at the Revolution.
They re-echoed from every pulpit the strain of passive obedience, of indefeasible hereditary right, of the divine origin and patriarchal descent of monarchy.
Passive obedience (as used by writers on government), obedience or submission of the subject or citizen as a duty in all cases to the existing government.
Three incredibilities among incredibilities: the pure mechanism of animals [the doctrine of Descartes]; passive obedience; and the infallibility of the Pope.
There are some good remarks upon the way in which, among the free Franks, the bishops taught the duty of passive obedience, in Mably, Obs.
It taught a doctrine of passive obedience, which its disciples nobly observed in the worst periods of persecution.
Neither of these writers understood that the same principle lies at the root both of revolution and of passive obedience, and that the difference is only in the temper of the person who applies it, and in the outward circumstances.
But Socinus disarmed his own theory, for he was a strict advocate of passive obedience.
Passive obedience to the divinely ordained "powers that be" was therefore the sole duty of the subject.
For while Lutheranism stood essentially for passive obedience, and flourished nowhere save as a state church, Anabaptism was frankly revolutionary and often socialistic.
The bishops of the English Church had in times past, as well as the Universities, inculcated the doctrine of passive obedience; and oppression must be very grievous indeed which would induce them to oppose the royal will.
In the "Seven Articles" Robinson admits the royal supremacy in so far as to countenance a passive obedience.
From their pulpits was more frequently heard the doctrine of passive obedience.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "passive obedience" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
