Certain Sermons Or Homilies Appointed to be Read in Churches in the Time of Queen Elizabeth: And Reprinted by Authority from King James I, A.D. 1623. To which are Added, the Constitutions and Canons of the Church of England, Set Forth A.D. 1603. With an Appendix, Containing the Articles of Religion, Constitution, and Canons of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States of America

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H. Hooker, 1855 - Ecclesiastical law - 533 pages

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Page 491 - Let every soul be in subjection to the higher powers : for there is no power but of God ; and the powers that be are ordained of God.
Page 84 - who is our life, shall appear, then shall we also appear with him in glory,
Page 468 - Therefore also now, saith the Lord, turn ye even to me with all your heart, and with fasting, and with weeping, and with mourning: and rend your heart, and not your garments, and turn unto the Lord your God: for he is gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and of great kindness, and repenteth him of the evil.
Page 106 - Submit yourselves to every ordinance of man for the Lord's sake: whether it be to the king, as supreme; or unto governors, as unto them that are sent by him for the punishment of evildoers, and for the praise of them that do well. For so is the will of God, that with well doing ye may put to silence the ignorance of foolish men: as free, and not using your liberty for a cloak of maliciousness, but as the servants of God. Honour all men. Love the brotherhood. Fear God. Honour the king.
Page 113 - Know ye not, that your bodies are the members of Christ ? shall I then take the members of Christ, and make them the members of an harlot? God forbid.
Page 11 - If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us. If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. If we say that we have not sinned, we make Him a liar, and His word is not in us.
Page 287 - ... through Jesus Christ our Lord ; to whom, with the Father and the Holy Ghost, be all honour and glory, world without end. Amen.
Page 11 - Their throat is an open sepulchre; with their tongues they have used deceit; the poison of asps is under their lips: whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness: their feet are swift to shed blood: destruction and misery are in their ways: and the way of peace have they not known: there is no fear of God before their eyes.
Page 110 - But those things which proceed out of the mouth come forth from the heart; and they defile the man. For out of the heart proceed evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, blasphemies : these are the things which defile a man : but to eat with unwashen hands defileth not a man.
Page 160 - Take ye therefore good heed unto yourselves; for ye saw no manner of similitude on the day that the Lord spake unto you in Horeb out of the midst of the fire: Lest ye corrupt yourselves, and make you a graven image, the similitude of any figure, the likeness of male or female...

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