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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... nature , the management of his time , his wife , his family , and the fortune of him and his . Which inquiry hath given me much advantage in the knowledge of what is now under my con- sideration , and intended for the satisfaction of my ...
... nature , the management of his time , his wife , his family , and the fortune of him and his . Which inquiry hath given me much advantage in the knowledge of what is now under my con- sideration , and intended for the satisfaction of my ...
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... nature ; and with them a quick apprehension of many perplexed parts of learning , imposed then upon him as a scholar , made his master and others to believe him to have an inward blessed Divine light , and therefore to consider him to a ...
... nature ; and with them a quick apprehension of many perplexed parts of learning , imposed then upon him as a scholar , made his master and others to believe him to have an inward blessed Divine light , and therefore to consider him to a ...
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... nature ; because more unlike to the nature of God , which is love , and mercy , and peace ; and more like the devil ( who is not a glutton , nor can be drunk ; and yet is a devil ) : those wicked . nesses of malice and revenge , and ...
... nature ; because more unlike to the nature of God , which is love , and mercy , and peace ; and more like the devil ( who is not a glutton , nor can be drunk ; and yet is a devil ) : those wicked . nesses of malice and revenge , and ...
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... nature ; this , the way of grace : the end of that way , salvation merited , presupposing the righteousness of men's works : their righteousness , a natural ability to do them ; that ability , the goodness of God which created them in ...
... nature ; this , the way of grace : the end of that way , salvation merited , presupposing the righteousness of men's works : their righteousness , a natural ability to do them ; that ability , the goodness of God which created them in ...
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... nature blessed him with so blessed a bashfulness , that as in his younger days his pupils might easily look him out of countenance ; so neither then , nor in his age , did he ever willingly look any man in the face ; and was of so mild ...
... nature blessed him with so blessed a bashfulness , that as in his younger days his pupils might easily look him out of countenance ; so neither then , nor in his age , did he ever willingly look any man in the face ; and was of so mild ...
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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.