Ecclesiastical Polity, Books I-V, Volume 1Dent, 1925 - Church polity |
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... Common Prayer . The excellence of Hooker's English prose is not less remarkable than his clearness of vision and sagacity as an observer of men and affairs . His second con- tribution to Holinshed was a valuable account of recent Irish ...
... Common Prayer . The excellence of Hooker's English prose is not less remarkable than his clearness of vision and sagacity as an observer of men and affairs . His second con- tribution to Holinshed was a valuable account of recent Irish ...
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... betwixt four and five of the clock in the morning , and from five until six of the 1 Brother of the celebrated Alexander Nowell , Dean of St. Paul's . clock use common prayer with an exhortation of God's word Introduction ix.
... betwixt four and five of the clock in the morning , and from five until six of the 1 Brother of the celebrated Alexander Nowell , Dean of St. Paul's . clock use common prayer with an exhortation of God's word Introduction ix.
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Richard Hooker. clock use common prayer with an exhortation of God's word in a common chapel , and from six unto ten of the clock use ever either private study or common lectures . At ten of the clock they go to dinner , whereas they be ...
Richard Hooker. clock use common prayer with an exhortation of God's word in a common chapel , and from six unto ten of the clock use ever either private study or common lectures . At ten of the clock they go to dinner , whereas they be ...
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... common light of nature , whereby we discern sensible things : wherefore we must needs be more sure of that we believe , than of that we see ; we must needs be more certain of the mercies of God in Christ Jesus , than we are of the light ...
... common light of nature , whereby we discern sensible things : wherefore we must needs be more sure of that we believe , than of that we see ; we must needs be more certain of the mercies of God in Christ Jesus , than we are of the light ...
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... common experience to the contrary : " A woman that is old ! Sarah now to be acquainted again with forgotten passions of youth ! " 2 The word of the promise of God by Moses and the prophets made the Saviour of the world so apparent unto ...
... common experience to the contrary : " A woman that is old ! Sarah now to be acquainted again with forgotten passions of youth ! " 2 The word of the promise of God by Moses and the prophets made the Saviour of the world so apparent unto ...
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Page 398 - 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 240 - Now the Spirit speaketh expressly, that in the latter times some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits, and doctrines of devils ; speaking lies in hypocrisy ; having their conscience seared with a hot iron ; forbidding to marry, and commanding to abstain from meats, which God hath created to be received with thanksgiving of them which believe and know the truth.
Page 157 - ... 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 396 - And they stirred up the people and the elders and the scribes, and came upon him, and caught him and brought him to the council, and set up false witnesses, which said ; This man ceaseth not to speak blasphemous words against this holy place and the law. For we have heard him say ; That this Jesus of Nazareth shall destroy this place, and shall change the customs which Moses delivered us.
Page 31 - Behold, I will cast her into a bed, and them that commit adultery with her into great tribulation, except they repent of their deeds.
Page 240 - Forbidding to marry, and commanding to abstain from meats, which God hath created to be received with thanksgiving of them which believe and know the truth. For every creature of God is good, and nothing to be refused, if it be received with thanksgiving: For it is sanctified by the word of God and prayer.
Page 77 - Though for no other cause, yet for this, that posterity may know we have not loosely, through silence, permitted things to pass away as in a dream...
Page 157 - ... 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 do all serve ? See we not plainly that obedience of creatures unto the law of nature is the stay of the whole world...
Page 157 - 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...
Page 192 - J till by experience they found this for all parts very inconvenient, so as the thing which they had devised for a remedy did indeed but increase the sore which it should have cured. They saw that to live by one man's will became the cause of all men's misery.