The works of ... vindicating the church of England, as truly christian, and duly reformed: in eight books of ecclesiastical polity. Now compleated, as with the sixth and eighth, so with the seventh, (touching episcopacy, as the primitive, catholick and apostolick government of the church) out of his own manuscripts, never before published. With an account of his holy life, and happy death (1662)
Hooker, Richard, 1553 or 4-1600, Gauden, John, 1605-1662 · London : Printed by J. Best, for Andrew Crook · leaf 156
9. How Laivs fir the Polity of the Church may be made by the advice of men, and htiv thofe Lares btingmt repugnant tothe Wordof God, are approved in his Pght. 10. bat neither Gods btin? the Author of Lares, nor yet his committing of them to Scripture, is any reafm fufficientt) Prove that they admit… … Lbeit thefiibftaiice of thofe controverlies whereinto we have be- V\ hat ti.egun to wade, be rather of outwaid things appertaining to the <-iichi»,arChurch of Chiill, then of any thing wherein the nature and be- . * -P ^ing of the Church conlilleth : yet becaufe the fubjeft or niattei- ^ f…
Church of England · Church polity
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