I observe there is in Mr. Hooker no affected language; but a grave, comprehensive, clear manifestation of reason, and that backed with the authority of the Scriptures, the fathers and schoolmen, and with all law both sacred and civil.
Even ministers of good things are like torches, a light to others, waste and destruction to themselves. - Richard Hooker
Even ministers of good things are like torches, a light to others, waste and destruction to themselves.
- Richard Hooker
Words must be taken according to the matter whereof they are uttered. - Richard Hooker
Words must be taken according to the matter whereof they are uttered.
See we not plainly that obedience of creatures unto the law of nature is the stay of the whole world? - Richard Hooker
See we not plainly that obedience of creatures unto the law of nature is the stay of the whole world?
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… - Richard Hooker
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…
Whatsoever is good; the same is also approved of God. - Richard Hooker
Whatsoever is good; the same is also approved of God.
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 … - Richard Hooker
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 …
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 … - Richard Hooker
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 …
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… - Richard Hooker
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…
To live by one man's will becomes the cause of all misery. - Richard Hooker
To live by one man's will becomes the cause of all misery.
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