Even ministers of good things are like torches, a light to others, waste and destruction to themselves..

Man doth seek a triple perfection: first a sensual, consisting in those things which very life itself requireth either as necessary supplements, or a….

Of two Evils we take the less..

Words must be taken according to the matter whereof they are uttered..

Think of your child, then, not as dead, but as living; not as a flower that has withered, but as one that is transplanted, and touched by a Divine ha….

To live by one man's will becomes the cause of all misery..

The church is in Christ, as Eve was in Adam..

God is no captious sophister, eager to trip us up whenever we say amiss, but a courteous tutor, ready to amend what, in our weakness or our ignorance….

Whatsoever is good; the same is also approved of God..

So that every man lawfully ordained must bring a bow which hath two strings, a title of present right and another to provide for future possibility o….

For men to be tied and led by authority, as it were with a kind of captivity of judgment, and though there be reason to the contrary not to listen un….

The reason why the simpler sort are moved with authority, is the consciousness of their own ignorance; whereby it cometh to pass that having learned ….

Of Law there can be no less acknowledged, than that her seat is the bosom of God, her voice the harmony of the world: all things in heaven and earth ….

Angels are unsatisfiable in their longing to do by all means all manner of good unto all the creatures, ...especially the children of men..

I observe there is in Mr. Hooker no affected language; but a grave, comprehensive, clear manifestation of reason, and that backed with the authority ….

See we not plainly that obedience of creatures unto the law of nature is the stay of the whole world?.

He that goeth about to persuade a multitude that they are not so well governed as they ought to be shall never want attentive and favorable hearers..

The reason why the simpler sort are moved by authority is the consciousness of their own ignorance.