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
No, my soft charmer, our souls were touched with the same shafts of love before they had a being in our bodies, and can we contradict divine decree?
From Love-Letters Between a Nobleman and His Sister by Behn, Aphra
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
Moreover, it is certain that I am not a champion of religion by the law of Nature, that is, by the divine decree.
From The Philosophy of Spinoza by Ratner, Joseph
The priests of such a temple would be exempt, by divine decree, from the rule of yearly travel.
From Temple Trouble by Piper, H. Beam
