Civil-power Definition

Civil-power Sentence Examples

• That principle is Spiritual in- equally opposed to Erastianism and to Papacy, to the civil power dominating the Church, and to the ecclesiastical power dominating the state.

• Before the Reformation the Church would have had the last word; since that event the right and the duty of the civil power have been generally recognized.

• In 1581 the Middelburg Synod divided the Church, created provincial synods and presbyteries, but could not shake off the civil power in connexion with the choice of church officers.

• A bishop refusing to come to Rome was to be brought there by the civil power.

• Seclusion in a monastery seems first to have been used by the civil power in aid of the spiritual.