divine decree

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The British colonizers were driven by the belief that they were entitled by divine decree and by royal declaration to live on and use the land and resources of North America.

From "An Indigenous People’s History of the United States" by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz

The words, "To make know," etc., indicate that the making refers, in the meantime, only to the divine decree.

From Christology of the Old Testament: And a Commentary on the Messianic Predictions, Vol. 1 by Hengstenberg, Ernst Wilhelm

The Bible tells us that God made us in His image and placed us here to carry out a divine decree.

From In His Image by Bryan, William Jennings

What possibility could there have been of reversing the divine decree?

From Reason, The Only Oracle of Man Or a Compendius System of Natural Religion by Allen, Ethan

You do not alter facts by neglecting them, nor abrogate a divine decree by disbelieving it.

From Expositions of Holy Scripture Isaiah and Jeremiah by Maclaren, Alexander