Thomas Hooker: Preacher, Founder, DemocratDodd, Mead, 1891 - 203 pages |
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Page 203 - York. This preservation photocopy was made and hand bound at BookLab, Inc., in compliance with copyright law. The paper is Weyerhaeuser Cougar Opaque Natural, which exceeds ANSI Standard Z39.48-1984. 1993 3 2044 022 656
Page 46 - for if the mighty works which have been done in thee had been done in India or Turky, they would have repented ere this ; therefore Capernaums place is
Page 21 - No, madam, far be it from me to countenance anything contrary to your established laws; but I have set an acorn which, when it becomes an oak, God alone knows what will be the fruit thereof.
Page 148 - Hartford, who, for piety, prudence, wisdom, zeal, learning, and what else might make him serviceable in the place and time he lived in, might be compared with men of greatest note; and he shall need no other praise: the fruits of his labors in both Englands shall preserve an honorable and happy remembrance of him forever.
Page 24 - In the house of pure Emmanuel I had my education ; Where, my friends surmise, I dazzled my eyes With the light of Revelation. « Boldly I preach, Hate a cross and a surplice; Mitres, copes, and rochets; Come hear me pray, Nine times a day, And fill your head with crotchets.
Page 118 - yet is, who those should be. Reserving smaller matters which fall in occasionally in common course, to a lower counsel, in matters of greater consequence, which concern the common good, a general counsel chosen by all, I conceive, under favour, most suitable to rule and most safe for relief of the whole.
Page 117 - I expostulated [with Mr. Hooker] about the unwarrantableness and unsafeness of referring matter of counsel or judicature to the body of the people, quia the best part is always the least, and of that best part the wiser part is always the lesser. The old law was, choose ye out judges, etc., and thou shalt bring the matter
Page 97 - Then Samuel took a stone, and set it up between Mizpeh and Shen, and called the name of it Ebenezer, saying, Hitherto hath the Lord helped us.
Page 79 - matter was debated divers days, and many reasons alleged pro and con. The principal reasons for their removal were, I. Their want of accommodation for their cattle, so as they were not able to maintain their ministers, nor could receive any more of their friends to
Page 118 - confess, I ever looked at it as a way which leads directly to tyranny, and so to confusion, and must plainly profess, if it was in my liberty, I should choose neither to live nor leave my posterity under such a government. Sit liber judex,