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Instead of the formula under which so many persecutions had been organised, 'there is but one God, and Muhammad is his Prophet, he adopted the revised version: 'there is but one God, and Akbar is his vicegerent on earth. The prophet, he argued, came to preach the oneness, the unity, of God to an idolatrous people. To that people Muhammad was the messenger to proclaim the good tidings.
In the mean time, while Godwin was governing, as vicegerent, the province which Canute had assigned him, Canute himself extended his own dominion far and wide, reducing first all England under his sway, and then extending his conquests to the Continent. Edmund, the Saxon king, was dead. His brothers Edward and Alfred, the two remaining sons of Ethelred, were with their mother in Normandy.
The motto on the sword ran as follows, "Accipe sanctum gladium, menus a Deo in quo dejicies adversarios populi mei Israel." The Viceroy of Philip, thus stimulated to persevere in his master's precepts by the Vicegerent of Christ, was not likely to swerve from his path, nor to flinch from his work.
He expressed the hope therefore of obtaining the King's approval of Leopold's position in Julich as temporary vicegerent of his sovereign and cousin. The real motive of his mission, however, was privately to ascertain whether Henry was really ready to go to war for the protection of the possessory princes, and then, to proceed to Spain.
The sanction of religion was by divines called in aid; and the Monarch of heaven was supposed to be interested in supporting the authority of his earthly vicegerent. * See note III, at the end of the volume. See note KKK, at the end of the volume.
My lieges keep a' their happiness to themselves; but let bowls row wrang wi' them, and I am sure to hear of it." "And to whom else can we carry our complaints but to your Majesty, who is Heaven's vicegerent over us!" answered Nigel. "Right, man, right very weel spoken," said the king; "but you should leave Heaven's vicegerent some quiet on earth, too."
There is no need for an armed rising. Five score of my lances will be all that is necessary. We are planning a surprise, and Ferrante Gonzaga is to be at hand to support us with Imperial troops and to receive the State as the Emperor's vicegerent when the hour strikes. It will strike soon," he added, "and this, too, shall be paid for with the rest."
It is inborn, a law of nature, not, as Machiavelli teaches, a political invention. The Church should be superior to the State, the vicegerent of God to temporal rulers and to councils. Philosophy of the State and of Law%.
These words of mine, words of truth and soberness, aiming faithfully, as human inability would allow, to promote God's truth on Earth, and save men's souls, you, God's vicegerent on earth, answer them by the hangman and fire? You will burn me and them, for answer to the God's-message they strove to bring you? You are not God's vicegerent; you are another's than his, I think!
The Father worked by him, and he by the Spirit, which is his great Vicegerent, sent from the Father, and from him, and his work is to glorify the Son, and he shall receive of his, and show it unto us, John xvi. 14. That Christ, upon many accounts, standeth engaged to perfect this work which he hath begun and is about.
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