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 1 1     |             especially of the civil power on which the public safety
 2 3     |            Nevertheless, the divine power of the Christian religion
 3 3     | institutions of States. And of this power not the least nor last fruit
 4 4     |             possible that political power should be removed from the
 5 5     |         philosophers,2 say that all power comes from the people; so
 6 7     |            not approve of the chief power being held by one man or
 7 8     |           But, as regards political power, the Church rightly teaches
 8 9     |            that the source of human power is in God the books of the
 9 9     |           rule the people . . . for power is given you of the Lord
10 9     |             and beauty of the chief power. Afterwards, when the Christian
11 9     |          pretending that he had the power of releasing and of condemning,
12 9     |          Thou shouldst not have any power against me unless it were
13 9     |           Apostle, that there is no power but from God."8 The faithful
14 9     |           of gravity: "There is not power but from God," from which,
15 10    |            says St. Augustine, "the power of giving government and
16 10    |            saying: "We confess that power is given from above to emperors
17 11    |           himself or of himself the power of constraining the free
18 11    |        authority of this kind. This power resides solely in God, the
19 11    |       clearly seen in every kind of power. That that which resides
20 12    |            has put himself into the power of the one man in whose
21 12    |    authority to confer on political power such great force, dignity,
22 12(15)|             doctrine, all political power comes to rulers from the
23 13    |             communication of divine power, will by that very reason
24 14    |             powers, for there is no power but from God, and those
25 14    |     Therefore he that resisteth the power resisteth the ordinance
26 15    |             the bounds of their own power and pervert justice; nor
27 16    |           understand that political power was not created for the
28 22    |           consecrated the political power in a wonderful manner. Greatly,
29 23    |          the doctrines on political power invented by late writers
30 23    |      greatest splendor of political power and to destroy its force.
31 23    |          And they who say that this power depends on the will of the
32 23(29)|          citizens to obey the civil power (On the Civil Power, 1523).~
33 23(29)|           civil power (On the Civil Power, 1523).~
34 24    |          supply themselves with the power of laws, and think to coerce,
35 24    |          seriously consider that no power of punishment can be so
36 24    |         them, religion which by its power enters into the souls and
37 26    |            declares to be under the power and authority of the ruler;
38 26    |             sacred and to the civil power, the Church wishes that