A survey of the summe of church-discipline : wherein the way of the churches of New-England is warranted out of the Word, and all exceptions of weight, which are made against it, answered: Whereby also it will appear to the judicious reader, that something more must be said, then yet hath been, before their principles can be shaken, or they should be unsetled in their practice (1648)
Hooker, Thomas, 1586-1647 · London : Printed by A. M. for John Bellamy · leaf 426
nth of the aA^s. Before we can come to give a <lire(5l andcleare Anprver thereunto, we (hall be forcedtofpeak fome things to prepare way to thatpurpofe, that it mayappeare how farre thepower of a Synod is confeffed or denied,and wherein thefirejfeof the Controverfy doth efpecially confift: and… … Chap. I. A Survey of the Sumnte Part. 4. fettle the hearts of all fincerely minded in the right a^prehenfionAnd frofejfion of the fame. When many, and thofefekcl and eminent, lay the beft oftheir abilities together, improve their parts and prayers, dif-qiiifitions, confultations ^ determinations,…
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