Firstly, they exact a revenue for repentance, as the vicegerents of God upon earth, as such, claiming power to pardon all sin.
Herein the reader may see what goes forward in the demure palaces of the princes of the Church, from which the "Vicegerents of Heaven" are elected.
It represents the ancient palace of Lagash, subsequently enlarged and altered by Oudea or one of the vicegerents who succeeded him, in which many a great lord of the place must have resided down to the time of the Christian era.
Other kings and vicegerents of doubtful sequence were followed lastly by Urbau and his son Gudea.
Next to the sun they beheld their Incas with the greatest reverence, looking upon them as his immediate descendants and vicegerents upon earth.
Pognon discovered inscriptions of four of the vicegerents of Ashnunak, which he assigns, with some hesitation, to the time of Khammurabi, rather than to that of the kings of Telloh.
Sargon the Elder is credited with having subdued Elam; the kings andvicegerents of Lagash, as well as those of Uru and.
He means to realise his earlier threat (1521): “If I live I shall never make peace with the Papacy; if you kill me you shall have twice as little peace.
Harnack’s dilemma: Was Luther a megalomaniac, or were his achievements commensurate with his claims?
Hitherto Cornelius Tacitus reherseth these vicegerentsor deputies in order.
Sovereigns, it is true, call themselves the representatives of God, his vicegerents upon earth.
We must remain in doubt whether Moses thought that these beings who acted as God's vicegerents were created by Him, for he has stated nothing, so far as we know, about their creation and origin.
Whom in authority will he make to be the devil’s vicegerents if infidel magistrates be Christ’s vicegerents?
Now I assume pagan magistrates do not manage their office as the deputies and vicegerents of Jesus Christ, as he is Mediator, therefore as the devil’s deputies.
When Abdalmalik, after a stay of forty days, returned from Irak to Syria, he left two Omayyad princes as his vicegerents in Kufa and Basra.
In the same sense the term is used in the Koran of both Adam and David as the vicegerents of God.
The vicegerents of Hisham were replaced by Qaisites; Yusuf b.
These pontiffs acknowledged, in their turn, the supreme jurisdiction of the metropolitans or high priests of the province, who acted as the immediate vicegerents of the emperor himself.
These prerogatives were reserved to the præfects, who alone could impose the heavy fine of fifty pounds of gold: their vicegerents were confined to the trifling weight of a few ounces.
And remember how He hath appointed you vicegerents in the earth after the people of Noah, and increased you in tallness of stature.
Some of them were more than messengers; they were the interpreters and vicegerents of the supreme deity, like Nebo "the prophet" of Borsippa.
These prerogatives were reserved to the praefects, who alone could impose the heavy fine of fifty pounds of gold: their vicegerents were confined to the trifling weight of a few ounces.
If such Vicegerents are by Heaven appointed, The Devil himself may be the Lord s anointed!
Heaven's vicegerents seldom bestowed a thought npon them, except when it was necessary either to inveigle or to force them to take the sword and march to slaughter.
Where God caused the sun to shine gaily, and scattered plenty over the land, hisvicegerents diffused famine and solitude.
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