Ecclesiastical Polity, Books I-V, Volume 1Dent, 1925 - Church polity |
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... Wherein I may haply err as others before me have done , but an heretic by the help of Almighty God I will never be . " It is , no doubt , partly because Hooker wrote nearly twenty years after the controversy he sums up that there is in ...
... Wherein I may haply err as others before me have done , but an heretic by the help of Almighty God I will never be . " It is , no doubt , partly because Hooker wrote nearly twenty years after the controversy he sums up that there is in ...
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... wherein his salvation standeth , as to be perfect , neither doubting nor shrinking at all . If any such were , what doth let why that man should not be justified by his own inherent righteous- ness ? For righteousness inherent being ...
... wherein his salvation standeth , as to be perfect , neither doubting nor shrinking at all . If any such were , what doth let why that man should not be justified by his own inherent righteous- ness ? For righteousness inherent being ...
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... wherein we lie the sun shineth fair upon their foreheads ; we are hanged up like bottles in the smoke , cast into corners like the sherds of a broken pot : tell not us of the promises of God's favour , tell such as do reap the fruit of ...
... wherein we lie the sun shineth fair upon their foreheads ; we are hanged up like bottles in the smoke , cast into corners like the sherds of a broken pot : tell not us of the promises of God's favour , tell such as do reap the fruit of ...
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... wherein we have regarded our own glory , those things which we do to please men , or to satisfy our own liking , those things which we do with any by- f endeavour to om . E. were E. r I own om . E. P mouth E. indeed we have E. h herein ...
... wherein we have regarded our own glory , those things which we do to please men , or to satisfy our own liking , those things which we do with any by- f endeavour to om . E. were E. r I own om . E. P mouth E. indeed we have E. h herein ...
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... wherein we were born , except we might persuade ourselves better things ; things that accompany men's P salvation , even where we know that worse and such as accompany condemnation are due . Then must we shew some way how possibly they ...
... wherein we were born , except we might persuade ourselves better things ; things that accompany men's P salvation , even where we know that worse and such as accompany condemnation are due . Then must we shew some way how possibly they ...
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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.