The Works of that Learned and Judicious Divine, Mr. Richard Hooker: With an Account of His Life and Death, Volume 2University Press, 1841 - Church polity |
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... standing within this realm , " By the goodness of Almighty God and his " servant Elizabeth we are . " That God who is able to make mortality immortal give her such future continuance , as may be no less glorious unto all posterity than ...
... standing within this realm , " By the goodness of Almighty God and his " servant Elizabeth we are . " That God who is able to make mortality immortal give her such future continuance , as may be no less glorious unto all posterity than ...
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... standing declare that which is in truth her only working . For , if Religion did possess sincerely and sufficiently the hearts of all men , there would need no other restraint from evil . This doth not only give life and perfection to ...
... standing declare that which is in truth her only working . For , if Religion did possess sincerely and sufficiently the hearts of all men , there would need no other restraint from evil . This doth not only give life and perfection to ...
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... stand , what other stay or succour have we to lean unto , saving the testimony of our conscience , and the comfort we take in this , that we serve the living God ( as near as our wits can reach unto the know- ledge thereof ) even ...
... stand , what other stay or succour have we to lean unto , saving the testimony of our conscience , and the comfort we take in this , that we serve the living God ( as near as our wits can reach unto the know- ledge thereof ) even ...
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... stand be- tween man and man , which shall hearken unto other ; sith the aged for the most part are best experienced , least subject to rash and unadvised passions , it hath been ever judged reasonable that their sentence in matter of ...
... stand be- tween man and man , which shall hearken unto other ; sith the aged for the most part are best experienced , least subject to rash and unadvised passions , it hath been ever judged reasonable that their sentence in matter of ...
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... standing as it pleaseth him . But let no man presuming there- upon neglect the instructions , or despise the ordinances of his elders , sith He whose gift wisdom is hath said 38 , " Ask thy " father and he will shew thee ; thine ...
... standing as it pleaseth him . But let no man presuming there- upon neglect the instructions , or despise the ordinances of his elders , sith He whose gift wisdom is hath said 38 , " Ask thy " father and he will shew thee ; thine ...
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Page 479 - But unto every one of us is given grace according to the measure of the gift of Christ. Wherefore he saith; when he ascended up on high, he led captivity captive, and gave gifts unto men.
Page 321 - Seest thou this woman? I entered into thine house, thou gavest me no water for my feet: but she hath washed my feet with tears, and wiped them with the hairs of her head.
Page 488 - Jacob vowed a vow, saying, If God will be with me, and will keep me in this way that I go, and will give me bread to eat, and raiment to put on, So that I come again to my father's house in peace; then shall the LORD be my God: And this stone, which I have set for a pillar, shall be God's house: and of all that thou shalt give me I will surely give the tenth unto thee.
Page 302 - And it came to pass by the way in the inn, that the Lord met him, and sought to kill him. Then Zipporah took a sharp stone, and cut off the foreskin of her son, and cast it at his feet, and said, Surely a bloody husband art thou to me. So he let him go: then she said, A bloody husband thou art, because of the circumcision.
Page 192 - When thou hadst overcome the sharpness of death, thou didst open the kingdom of heaven to all believers.
Page 490 - Bring ye all the tithes into the storehouse, that there may be meat in mine house, and prove me now herewith, saith the Lord of hosts, if I will not open you the windows of heaven and pour you out a blessing, that there shall not be room enough to receive it.
Page 549 - Come, ye children and hearken unto me: I will teach you the fear of the Lord.
Page 159 - Touching musical harmony, whether by instrument or by voice, it being but of high and low in sounds a due proportionable disposition ; such notwithstanding is the force thereof, and so pleasing effects it hath in that very part of man which is most divine, that some have been thereby induced to think that the soul itself by nature is or hath in it harmony.
Page 250 - ... made Eve of the rib of Adam. And his Church he frameth out of the very flesh, the very wounded and bleeding side of the Son of man. His body crucified and his blood shed for the life of the world, are the true elements of that heavenly being, which maketh us such as himself is of whom we come. For which cause the words of Adam may be fitly the words of Christ concerning his Church, "flesh of my flesh, and bone of my bones," a true native extract out of mine own body.
Page 443 - But for his kin, that is near unto him, that is, for his mother, and for his father, and for his son, and for his daughter, and for his brother...