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Page 44 - The Almighty, therefore, has appointed the charge of the human race between two powers, the ecclesiastical and the civil, the one being set over divine, and the other over human, things. Each in its kind is supreme, each has fixed limits within which it is contained, limits which are defined by the nature and special object of the province of each, so that there is, we may say, an orbit traced out within which the action of each is brought into play by its own native right.
Page 18 - Wherefore man had need of a twofold directive power according to his twofold end, to wit, the supreme pontiff, to lead the human race, in accordance with things revealed, to eternal life; and the emperor, to direct the human race to temporal felicity in accordance with the teachings of philosophy.
Page 43 - Elizabeth, by the grace of God, of England, Fraunce and Ireland, queene, defender of the faith," etc. ; and the grant authorizing him to enact statutes for the government of the proposed colony provided that "they be not against the true Christian faith nowe professed in the Church of England.
Page 17 - ... ascend unless assisted by the divine light. And this blessedness is given to be understood by the celestial paradise. Now to these two as to diverse ends it behoves him to come by diverse means. For to the first we attain by the teachings of philosophy, following them by acting in accordance with the moral and intellectual virtues. To the second by spiritual teachings which transcend human reason, as we follow them by acting according to the theological virtues; faith, hope, to wit, and charity.
Page 44 - But, inasmuch as each of these two powers has authority over the same subjects, and as it might come to pass that one and the same thing — related differently, but still remaining one and the same thing — might belong to the jurisdiction and determination of both, therefore God, who foresees all things, and who is the author of these two powers, has marked out the course of each in right correlation to the other. "For the powers that are, are ordained of God.
Page 17 - I saw And knew the shade of him, who to base fear Yielding, abjured his high estate. Forthwith I understood, for certain, this the tribe Of those ill spirits both to God displeasing And to his foes. These...
Page 36 - Germanic nation in the faculty of arts until the close of the Hundred Years War, in the middle of the fifteenth century.
Page 22 - It is here stated that for salvation it is necessary that every human creature be subject to the authority of the Roman pontiff.
Page 32 - ... that should color the philosophical tenets as to the claims of the new nations then forming in Europe; that should be the basis of the claim of right on the part of the State to determine for its citizens what its religion should be. "Cujus regio, ejus religio" was to be the maxim of the modern State.
Page 5 - THIS short monograph is an attempt to trace the origin of the modern idea of the union of Church and State from two basic documents, read in the light of...