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

Moreover, it is certain that I am not a champion of religion by the law of Nature, that is, by the divine decree.

From The Philosophy of Spinoza by Ratner, Joseph

In such a nation as this, an election is equivalent to a divine decree, and irreversible.

From History of Woman Suffrage, Volume II by Stanton, Elizabeth Cady

Behold well pleased 450   I seek to finish thy divine decree.

From Poetical Works of Akenside by Gilfillan, George

The inefficacy of natural prayer asserted in our thesis, is not, as in the case of merit,443 due to any intrinsic impossibility, but to a positive divine decree to grant supernatural prayer.

From Grace, Actual and Habitual A Dogmatic Treatise by Preuss, Arthur