jure divino
Americanadverb
Example Sentences
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But is their excommunication doctrinal? and do they not hold excommunication to be jure divino?
From The Works of Mr. George Gillespie (Vol. 1 of 2) by Gillespie, George
Where he mentioneth a church government distinct from the civil, and that jure divino, as a thing uncontroverted.
From The Works of Mr. George Gillespie (Vol. 1 of 2) by Gillespie, George
In other writers we find the particular opinions of the individual; in Massinger it is rank republicanism; in Beaumont and Fletcher even jure divino principles are carried to excess;—but Shakespeare never promulgates any party tenets.
From Shakespeare, Ben Jonson, Beaumont and Fletcher by Coleridge, Samuel Taylor
"That the calling and making of ministers are not jure divino, but a minister comes to be so as a merchant, bookseller, carter, and such like."
From The Life of John Milton Volume 3 1643-1649 by Masson, David
The king would by no means abandon Episcopacy nor the Parliament Presbytery; for both in their opinion were jure divino.
From Memoirs of a Cavalier A Military Journal of the Wars in Germany, and the Wars in England. From the Year 1632 to the Year 1648. by Defoe, Daniel
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