The works of Mr. Richard Hooker, (that Learned and Judicious Divine) : in eight books of ecclesiastical polity .. (1666)
Hooker, Richard, 1553 or 4-1600 · London : Printed for Andrew Crooke · leaf 418
,where before they could not endure with patience to be gain-faid. Neither willIdefpairofthelike fuccefs in thefe unpleafant Controverfies touching Ikcle/iafticalPolity-, the time of filence, which both parts havejwillingly taken to breathe, feem-ing now as it were a pledge of all Mens quiet… … Thequefticnbetween us,whether allCongregati-on, or Pa-rifhes oughtto have Lay-Eldcrsinve-fted withpower oflnriuliftionin fpiritual.caufes. L&T.6.Lib. 7.Lib. 8. 3*6 The Sixth Bool^ of rence of a few Ceremonies, could either have kindled fo much fire, orhavecaufedit to flame fo long •, but that…
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