Read the following quotation from Catholic bishop Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet at the court of Louis XIV.Rulers then act as the ministers of God and as his lieutenants on earth. It is through them that God exercises his empire. . . . Consequently, as we have seen, the royal throne is not the throne of a man, but the throne of God himself.
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a bishop who was not a member of the royal courtC
a member of the British ParliamentD
an absolute monarch from Spain or Russia