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 96
,fecret lets anddifticultles , which in publique.proceeding areinnimerableandinevitabk,they have not ordinarily the judg-ment to conlider. i\nd becaufefuch as openly reprove fuppo-^^ fed diforders ofllate are taken for principal friends to the com-mon oeniht 01 a.l, and for men that carry fingular… … The firft Booi of 1^accept and believe it. Whereas oiitheother fide, if we maintaine things that are eltaDlilned, wehavenot onely toltrivewith a number of heavy prejudices deeplyrooted in tie hearts of men, who think that herein we ferve the time, and fpeak infavor of taepretent itat^jbecaufe…
Church of England · Church polity
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