Studies in European History; Being Academical Addresses Delivered By John Ignatius Von Döllinger ..
Studies in European History; Being Academical Addresses Delivered By John Ignatius Von Döllinger ..
Johann Joseph Ignaz Von Dllinger
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T Digitized by Google 274 THE POLICY OF LOUIS XIV xi He seriously believed in a special illumination, a divine instinct in kings, leading them, if left to themselves, to decide aright in all important questions. He mentions the discerning of spirits, the bestowal of offices and distribution of favours, as things in which he, as God's vicegerent upon earth, was guided by inspiration from above. It is not the king who receives good advice, said Louis, but it is he whose wisdom trains good ministe...rs, so that when he receives good counsel from them, he himself is properly the source of it. He acknowledges that he made mistakes, and that they gave him infinite trouble and vexation, but this had only hap- pened when, in careless haste, he had followed the opinion of others. Even his writing lessons when a boy had been made a vehicle for instilling into his mind that, as king, he might do whatever he pleased. The highest dignitaries of the church, such as Talon and Bossuet, declared that the intel- ligence of the monarch was a ray of the divine wisdom ; that he governed under divine inspiration ; by the special gift of God the king could discover even the most secret matters.
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