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
The inefficacy of natural prayer asserted in our thesis, is not, as in the case of merit,443 due to any intrinsic impossibility, but to a positive divine decree to grant supernatural prayer.
From Grace, Actual and Habitual A Dogmatic Treatise by Arthur Preuss
It is the first divine decree, issuing from love and help.
From Home Again by George MacDonald
He pictured the long lingering illness that followed that fatal wound, the patience of the sufferer, the unfaltering front with which he faced death, and his simple resignation to the divine decree.
From Recollections of Forty Years in the House, Senate and Cabinet An Autobiography. by John Sherman
The empire of the sword has also illustrated the divine decree: “All that take the sword shall perish with the sword”.
From The Formation of Christendom, Volume VII by Thomas W. Allies
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