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Example sentences for "ecclesiastical power"

  • For, Voltaire did more than any other man to sap the foundation of ecclesiastical power, and to destroy the supremacy of classical studies.

  • A knowledge of the causes of this hostility against Christianity is essential to a right understanding of the philosophy of the eighteenth century, and it will throw some light on the general theory of ecclesiastical power.

  • The beast" therefore refers to Rome either as a political power or as an ecclesiastical power, the context determining whether the political or the ecclesiastical phase is meant in a given instance.

  • These closely united symbols drawn from two departments--human and animal life--point us with absolute certainty to a temporal power combined with an ecclesiastical power.

  • This grant completed the symbol of Daniel's vision by constituting the papacy a temporal as well as an ecclesiastical power.

  • That kings are subject to no ecclesiastical power in temporals, nor can be deposed directly or indirectly by the chiefs of the church; 2.

  • His Treatise on ecclesiastical power of the state.

  • So we shall hereafter refer always to the beast as an ecclesiastical power, unless otherwise stated.

  • It is possible, also, that in this case a sword, wielded by the hand of an ecclesiastical power, may be used as a symbol of a spiritual cutting off, or excommunication.

  • For further clearing hereof, consider the several sorts or kinds of ecclesiastical power, according to this type or scheme of ecclesiastical power and authority here subjoined.

  • Ecclesiastical power is either supreme and magisterial; or subordinate and ministerial.

  • This power of Christ is the only proper fountain whence all ecclesiastical power flows to the Church.

  • The superiority of Protestantism over Catholicism consists in its diminution of superstition and intolerance, and in the check which it gives to ecclesiastical power.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    also some; annual interest; ecclesiastical affairs; ecclesiastical architecture; ecclesiastical authority; ecclesiastical court; ecclesiastical courts; ecclesiastical discipline; ecclesiastical government; ecclesiastical history; ecclesiastical jurisdiction; ecclesiastical power; ecclesiastical property; ecclesiastical unity; fleeing from; fossil shells; gold brick; longitudinal section; mother and; parliament election; pure water; shaped like; slightly soluble; twenty drops; will plant; without being