Harrington says that the stories of Simon the Jew were " used upon every occasion to reduce me to passive obedience."

His writings took a nuanced and middle way in ecclesiastical polity, and avoided Erastian views and divine right, while requiring passive obedience to authority depending on the context.

What we want, we mean to get Speeches, logic, arguments or passive obedience won't save you now.

Then, accustomed to passive obedience, he jumped down from the terrace, ran toward the lane, and at the end of twenty paces met d'Artagnan, who, having seen all, was coming to him.

The roaring ideals of fearless devotion and selflessness were gradually replaced by quiet, passive, civil obedience.

Mrs. Stuart, who was a confirmed invalid, acted in passive obedience to her husband's directions.

The old enthusiast of revolution was justifying passive obedience: thirty years had turned the almost Jacobin into an almost Jacobite.

The men, habituated like all Russians to passive obedience, went without a murmur, and Gregory found himself alone with Ivan and the two other slaves of the general.

As I desire never to use violence, I expect from you, more than all the others, a passive obedience.

William Sherlock backed up Jovian and passive obedience in Case of Resistance (1684).