divine decree

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The British colonizers were driven by the belief that they were entitled by divine decree and by royal declaration to live on and use the land and resources of North America.

From "An Indigenous People’s History of the United States" by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz

I nevah saw so cleahly the divine decree which has fo’eo’dained us to this opulence.

From Aladdin & Co. A Romance of Yankee Magic by Quick, Herbert

He reconciled free-will and necessity by representing the divine decree not as temporarily antecedent, but as immediately related to the action of the created will.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 8 "Dubner" to "Dyeing" by Various

But this duty, as I say, has been enjoined me by the deity, by oracles, by dreams, and by every mode by which any other divine decree has ever enjoined anything to man to do.

From Apology, Crito, and Phaedo of Socrates by Cary, Henry

There is one place in the world devoted by divine decree to pure air.

From Among the Forces by Warren, Henry White