The Works of Mr. Richard Hooker: With a General Index : Also, Mr. Isaac Walton's Life of the Author

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G. Cowie and Company ... Baynes and Son, ... Hatchard and Son, ... Smith, Elder, and Company ... R. Baynes, ... Deighton and Sons, Cambridge; J. Cumming, M. Keene, and R.M. Tims, Dublin; and H.S. Baynes, Edinburgh., 1825 - Church polity - 638 pages

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Page 643 - And he turned to the woman, and said unto Simon, 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 21 - ... not an open enemy, that hath done me this dishonour : for then I could have borne it.
Page 401 - When thou hadst overcome the sharpness of death, thou didst open the kingdom of heaven to all believers.
Page 152 - Dangerous it were for the feeble brain of man to wade far into the doings of the Most High ; whom although to know be life, and joy to make mention of his name ; yet our soundest knowledge is, to know that we know him not as indeed he is, neither can know him ; and our safest eloquence concerning him, is our silence, when we confess without confession, that his glory is inexplicable, hie greatness above our capacity and reach.
Page 191 - He hath made all subject, the lawful power of making laws to command whole politic societies of men belongeth so properly unto the same entire societies, that for any prince or potentate of what kind soever upon earth to exercise the same of himself, and not either by express commission immediately and personally received from God, or else by authority derived at the first from their consent upon whose persons they impose laws, it is no better than mere tyranny. 10 AD 15M.J [А.П.1ИО Laws they...
Page 158 - Heavenly arch erected over our heads should loosen and dissolve itself; 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...
Page 515 - So that although we lay altogether aside the consideration of ditty or matter, the very harmony of sounds being framed in due sort and carried from the ear to the spiritual faculties of our souls, is by a native puissance and efficacy greatly available to bring to a perfect temper whatsoever is there troubled, apt as well to quicken the spirits as to allay that which is too eager, sovereign against melancholy and despair, forcible to draw forth tears of devotion if the mind be such as can yield them,...
Page 514 - 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 292 - For after that in the wisdom of God the world by wisdom knew not God, it pleased God by the foolishness of preaching to save them that believe.
Page 583 - ... far above all principality, and power, and might, and dominion, and every name that is named, not only in this world, but also in that which is to come : And hath put all things under his feet, and gave him to be the head over all things to the church, which is his body, the fulness of him that filleth all in all.

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