The lesson to be learned from this is that, although ordained of God, civil governments are not ordained to direct or oppress men in religious matters.
Why, in religious matters, did Christ say men should not be called masters?
The "first beast before him" (papal Rome) exercised the power of persecuting and putting to death all who differed from it in religious matters.
In the first place, even the most ordinary of the Calvinistic party are, by the very terms of their creed, led, in religious matters, to fix their attention on their own minds rather than on the minds of others.
Their sincerity in religious matters is unquestionable;[1518] they are, moreover, eminently temperate and frugal.
The other two patriarchates of Jerusalem and Antioch were in religious matters co-ordinate, in political matters subordinate, to him.
A magistrate who had charge of religious matters, as at Byzantium.
Leicester was equally unwise in the part he took in regard to religious matters.
Maurice had nothing of his father's tolerance in religious matters or his subtle skill in diplomacy.
De la Haye is perfectly well aware of my system, and of my way of thinking on religious matters, but, being himself very devout, he entertains a holy sympathy for my soul, and I do not object to it.
I often laughed when I heard them talk on religious matters; they would ridicule those whose intellectual faculties were so limited that they could not understand the mysteries of religion.
But when we accept it readily in physics, why should we reject it in religious matters?
There is not a Catholic city in the world in which a man is half so free on religious matters as in Rome.
He alludes to "one circumstance" in the last extract as being a test of his depth in religious matters, which it will be interesting to have in his own words.
The question is, not what were Locke's personal opinions on religious matters, but what were the logical deductions from his philosophical system.
So far as he took any part in religious matters at all, it was as a violent partisan of the established faith and as a persecutor of Dissenters.
It was no doubt the record and the result of the French Revolution that moved the majority of political reformers for two generations to keep their own counsel on religious matters.
While, like his fellow-monarchs, Francis had no special interest in religious matters, he was shocked by an act of desecration ascribed to the Protestants, and in consequence forbade the circulation of Protestant books.
The soldiers, however, whom he got together showed little inclination to fight the Scots, with whom they were in tolerable agreement on religious matters.
The various cantons and towns never came to an agreement in religious matters, and Switzerland is still part Catholic and part Protestant.
This is required by the very object of the association, which is to aid the bishops in religious matters; it is also required by the dignity of the bishops, since the Holy Ghost has called them to be rulers in the church.
In this manner religious union was encouraged and faith strengthened among the Portuguese fugitives, who had so degenerated in religious matters.
Terrible sufferings had hardened the hearts of the Sephardic Jews, and they were but too ready to exercise the utmost severity in religious matters, and slavishly to follow the letter.
After the succession was decided, the great questions of government came into the foreground, above all the question what position Mary should take up with regard to religious matters.
But if this happened among men who adhered to her views in other points, what would those say who saw themselves, contrary to their expectation, oppressed and endangered by the Queen's measures in religious matters?
So, in many of his later prose dialogues, he upholds liberty of conscience and freedom of opinion in religious matters.
We can hardly wonder if, in the Reichstag of 1547, he tried to get himself recognised as supreme head of the Empire, not only in political, but also in religious matters.
But, though she said she would not take up arms, she knew her own mind in religious matters.
Under the authority of the Act of Supremacy, a court was erected, called the court of High Commission, which took cognizance of religious matters, without the aid of a jury.
As its basis they adopted the confession drawn up in 1643, by the Westminster assembly of divines, omitting, however, all that related to the power of synods and councils, and of the civil magistrate in religious matters.
The right of private judgment in religious matters, which follows immediately from the first principles of dissent, has been too generally denied by the rulers of this world to their subjects.
In religious matters those in power never carry on the controversy by opposing reasons with reasons.
It is evident that men were beginning to have the courage of their opinions in religious matters.
The following anecdote will serve to show how early he arrived at definite conclusions on religious matters.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "religious matters" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
