Richard Hooker

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Masters, 1907 - England - 208 pages
Richard Hooker was co-founder, with Thomas Cranmer (author of the Book of Common Prayer) of the Anglican religious tradition.

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Page 198 - But he that knew not. and did commit things worthy of stripes, shall be beaten with few stripes. For unto whomsoever much is given, of him shall be much required; and to whom men have committed much, of him they will ask the more.
Page 198 - We then as workers together with him, beseech you also that ye receive not the grace of God in vain ; (for he saith ; I have heard thee in a time accepted, and in the day of salvation...
Page 83 - I plead not my righteousness, but the forgiveness of my unrighteousness, for his merits who died to purchase pardon for penitent sinners ; and since I owe thee a death, Lord let it not be terrible, and then take thine own time, I submit to it ; let not mine, O Lord, but let thy Will be done...
Page 24 - 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.
Page 40 - that it was " best for him to have a wife, that might prove a nurse to " him ; such an one as might both prolong his life, and " make it more comfortable ; and such a one she could and " would provide for him, if he thought fit to marry.
Page 70 - ... and liberties, to accompany him in his perambulation ; and most did so : in which perambulation he would usually express more pleasant discourse than at other times, and would then always drop some loving and facetious observations to be remembered against the next year, especially by the boys and young people ; still inclining them, and all his present parishioners, to meekness, and mutual kindness and love ; because " Love thinks not evil, " but covers a multitude of infirmities.
Page 144 - What these elements are in themselves it skilleth not, it is enough that to me which take them they are the body and blood of Christ, His promise in witness hereof sufficeth, His word He knoweth which way to accomplish ; why should any cogitation possess the mind of a faithful communicant but this, ' 0 my God thou art true ! O my soul thou art happy...
Page 108 - Of law there can be no less acknowledged, than that her seat is the bosom of God, her voice the harmony of the world ; all things in heaven and earth do her homage, the very least as feeling her care, and the greatest as not exempted from her power ; both angels, and men, and creatures of what condition soever, though each in different sort and manner, yet all with uniform consent, admiring her as the mother of their peace and joy.
Page 74 - And after these days Elisabeth his wife conceived; and she hid herself five months, saying, Thus hath the Lord done unto me in the days wherein he looked upon me, to take away my reproach among men.
Page 162 - To whom CHRIST hath imparted power, both over that mystical body which is the society of souls, and over that natural which is Himself, for the knitting of both in one, (a work which antiquity doth call the making of CHRIST'S body,) the same power is in such not amiss both termed a kind of mark or character, and acknowledged to be indelible " Receive the Holy Ghost; whose sins soever ye remit, they are remitted ; whose sins ye retain, they are retained.

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