Divine right of kings - Early works to 1800

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A discourse on hereditary right. Written in the year 1712. By a celebrated clergyman
Celebrated clergyman.Date: [1775]
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Private vices the occasion of publick calamities . Proved from the nature of things; and by the testimony of ths [sic] wisest, ... An essay. By Edward Lewis, ..
Lewis, Edward, 1701-1784.Date: 1747
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The history of hereditary-right from Cain to Nero: wherein its indefeasibleness, and all other such late doctrines concerning the absolute power of princes, and the Unlimited Obedience of Subjects, are fully and finally determin'd, by the Scripture-Standard of Divine Right. To which is prefix'd, a preface, by way of a modest challenge and addres to the British and Irish Jacobites, to answer what is said. By the Late Reverend Mr. Robert Fleming.
Fleming, Robert, 1660?-1716.Date: [1717]
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The history of hereditary-right . Wherein its indefeasibleness, and all other such late doctrines, concerning the absolute power of Princes, and the Unlimited Obedience of Subjects, are fully and finally determin'd, by the scripture standard of divine right.
Fleming, Robert, 1660?-1716.Date: [1711]
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Government not originally proceeding from human agency, but divine institution , shewn in a sermon preached at Ottery St. Mary, Devon, December 13th, 1776, on the fast-day, appointed by reason of our Much-to-be-lamented American War, ... By John Coleridge, ..
Coleridge, John, 1719-1781.Date: 1777