The Works of Mr. Richard Hooker: In Eight Books : Of the Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity, with Several Other Treatises and a General Index : Also, a Life of the Author, Volume 1W. Clarke, 1821 - Church polity |
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... authority , after the many and long tragedies suffered from those club - masters and tub - ministers , who sought not fairly to ob- tain reformation of what might seem amiss , but violently and wholly to overthrow the ancient and goodly ...
... authority , after the many and long tragedies suffered from those club - masters and tub - ministers , who sought not fairly to ob- tain reformation of what might seem amiss , but violently and wholly to overthrow the ancient and goodly ...
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... authority prevail in all parts of the realm where their ha- bitations and estates were , that careful prelate made it his en- Opposed by deavour to stop Travers's coming in ; and had a learned man in his the Arch- view , and of ...
... authority prevail in all parts of the realm where their ha- bitations and estates were , that careful prelate made it his en- Opposed by deavour to stop Travers's coming in ; and had a learned man in his the Arch- view , and of ...
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... authority . To this height they were grown in both nations , and by these means there was distilled into the minds of the common people such other venomous and turbulent principles , as were inconsistent with the safety of the church ...
... authority . To this height they were grown in both nations , and by these means there was distilled into the minds of the common people such other venomous and turbulent principles , as were inconsistent with the safety of the church ...
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... authority of the Scripture , the fathers , and schoolmen , and with all law both sacred and civil . And , though many others write well , yet in the next age they will be forgotten ; but doubtless there is in every page of Mr. Hooker's ...
... authority of the Scripture , the fathers , and schoolmen , and with all law both sacred and civil . And , though many others write well , yet in the next age they will be forgotten ; but doubtless there is in every page of Mr. Hooker's ...
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... authority to what I have here written . " And though Mr. Hooker hastened his own death by hastening to give life to his books , yet he held out with his eyes to behold these Benjamins , these sons of his right hand , though to him they ...
... authority to what I have here written . " And though Mr. Hooker hastened his own death by hastening to give life to his books , yet he held out with his eyes to behold these Benjamins , these sons of his right hand , though to him they ...
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Page 324 - For it seemed good to the Holy Ghost, and to us, to lay upon you no greater burden than these necessary things, " that ye abstain from meats offered to idols, and from blood, and from things strangled, and from fornication, from which if ye keep yourselves, ye shall do well. Fare ye well.
Page 17 - ... not an open enemy, that hath done me this dishonour : for then I could have borne it.
Page 323 - And they are informed of thee, that thou teachest all the Jews which are among the Gentiles to forsake Moses, saying that they ought not to circumcise their children, neither to walk after the customs.
Page 249 - Where is the wise ? where is the scribe ? where is the disputer of this world ? hath not God made foolish the wisdom of this world ? For after that in the wisdom of God the world by wisdom knew not God, it pleased God by the foolishness of preaching to save them that believe.
Page 129 - Now, if nature should intermit her course, and leave altogether, though it were but for a while, the observation of her own laws; if those principal and mother elements of the world, whereof all things in this lower world are made, should lose the qualities which now they have ; if the frame of that heavenly arch erected over our heads should loosen and dissolve itself ; if celestial spheres should forget their wonted motions, and by irregular...
Page 129 - ... if celestial spheres should forget their wonted motions, and by irregular volubility turn themselves any way as it might happen; if the prince of the lights of heaven, which now as a giant doth run his unwearied course, should as it were through a languishing faintness begin to stand and to rest himself; if the moon should wander from her beaten way, the times and seasons of the year blend themselves by disordered and confused mixture, the winds breathe out their last gasp...
Page 130 - ... were through a languishing faintness begin to stand and to rest himself ; if the Moon should wander from her beaten way, the times and seasons of the year blend themselves by disordered and confused mixture, the winds breathe out their last gasp, the clouds yield no rain, the earth be defeated of heavenly influence, the fruits of the earth pine away as children at the withered breasts of their mother no longer able to yield them relief; what would become of man himself, whom these things now...
Page 155 - But forasmuch as we are not by ourselves sufficient to furnish ourselves with competent store of things needful for such a life as our nature doth desire, a life fit for the dignity of man ; therefore to supply those defects and imperfections which are in us living single and solely by ourselves, we are naturally induced to seek communion and fellowship with others. This was the cause of men's uniting themselves at the first in politic societies...
Page 14 - Richard, I do not give, but lend you my horse: be sure you be honest, and bring my horse back to me at your return this way to Oxford. And I do now give you ten groats, to bear your charges to Exeter; and here is ten groats more, which I charge you to deliver to your mother and tell her I send her a bishop's benediction with it, and beg the continuance of her prayers for me. And if you bring my horse back to me, I will give you ten groats more, to carry you on foot to the college : and so God bless...
Page 192 - If I do not the works of my Father, believe me not. But if I do, though ye believe not me, believe the works: that ye may know, and believe, that the Father is in me, and I in him.