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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... hope completed , with the three last books , so much desired , and so long concealed . The publishing of which volume so entire , and thus presenting it to your Majesty , seem to be a blessing and honour reserved by God's providence ...
... hope completed , with the three last books , so much desired , and so long concealed . The publishing of which volume so entire , and thus presenting it to your Majesty , seem to be a blessing and honour reserved by God's providence ...
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... hope , or rather know , there are no material mistakes in what I here present to you that shall be- come my reader . Little things that I have received by tradition ( to which there may be too much and too little faith given ) , I will ...
... hope , or rather know , there are no material mistakes in what I here present to you that shall be- come my reader . Little things that I have received by tradition ( to which there may be too much and too little faith given ) , I will ...
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... hope my well - meaning and diligence can protect me ( for I consider the age in which I live ) , and shall therefore but entreat of my reader a suspension of them , till I have made known unto him some reasons , which I myself would now ...
... hope my well - meaning and diligence can protect me ( for I consider the age in which I live ) , and shall therefore but entreat of my reader a suspension of them , till I have made known unto him some reasons , which I myself would now ...
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... hope will prove useful to the completing of what I intend . In the discovery of which I shall be faithful , and with this assurance put a period to my Introduction . His birth and youth . THE LIFE . It is not to be doubted , but that ...
... hope will prove useful to the completing of what I intend . In the discovery of which I shall be faithful , and with this assurance put a period to my Introduction . His birth and youth . THE LIFE . It is not to be doubted , but that ...
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... hope , the eldest son of Thomas Cranmer , son of Edmund Cranmer , the Archbishop's brother : he spent much of his youth in Corpus Christi - college in Oxford , where he continued master of arts for many years before he removed , and ...
... hope , the eldest son of Thomas Cranmer , son of Edmund Cranmer , the Archbishop's brother : he spent much of his youth in Corpus Christi - college in Oxford , where he continued master of arts for many years before he removed , and ...
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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.