 | Richard Hooker, Isaac Walton - Church polity - 1874 - 624 pages
...beginning an episcopal ministry. " Let us not," he says, " fear to be herein bold and peremp" tory, that if any thing in the Church's government, surely...even " of God ; the Holy Ghost was the author of it." Nay, he has marked his opinion yet more forcibly, by stating else<K> EPV Ixxvii. i. EDITOR'S where,... | |
 | Edward Harold Browne (bp. of Winchester.) - 1874 - 936 pages
...this at least gives no sanction to mere presbyterian ordination. We must conclude then with Hooker, ' If any thing in the Church's government, surely the first institution of bishops was from Heaven, even of God.'3 And with Bp. Hall, ' What inevitable necessity may do, we now dispute not/ yet ' for... | |
 | King's College London - 1877 - 308 pages
...peremptorily " concluded that " if anything in the Church's government, surely the first constitution of Bishops was from Heaven, was even of God ; the Holy Ghost was the author of it." On these principles he examines historically the existence and authority of Bishops from the earliest... | |
 | Charles Wordsworth - Scotland - 1881 - 142 pages
...divine than Richard Hooker has told us "not to fear to be herein bold and peremptory, that if anything in the Church's government, surely the first institution...was even of God; the Holy Ghost was the Author of it " (Eccl. Pol., vii. 5, 60). So then we have the institution of Episcopacy and the institution of the... | |
 | Charles Wordsworth (bp. of St. Andrews.) - 1881 - 156 pages
...divine than Richard Hooker has told us " not to fear to be herein bold and peremptory, that if anything in the Church's government, surely the first institution...was even of God; the Holy Ghost was the Author of it " (Eccl. Pol., vii. 5, 60). So then we have the institution of Episcopacy and the institution of the... | |
 | Christopher Wordsworth - Church history - 1881 - 524 pages
...of the blessed Apostles." And " let us not fear to be herein bold and peremptory, that if anything in the Church's government, surely the first institution of Bishops was from heaven, even of God ; the Holy Ghost was the Author of it" (VII. vi. i). Indeed, inasmuch as our Blessed Lord,... | |
 | Christopher Wordsworth - Church history - 1881 - 526 pages
...of the blessed Apostles." And " let us not fear to be herein bold and peremptory, that if anything in the Church's government, surely the first institution of Bishops was from heaven, even of God ; the Holy Ghost was the Author of it" (VII. vi. i). Indeed, inasmuch as our Blessed Lord,... | |
 | Christopher Wordsworth (bp. of Lincoln.) - Church history - 1881 - 524 pages
...of 'the blessed Apostles." And " let us not fear to be herein bold and peremptory, that if anything in the Church's government, surely the first institution of Bishops was from heaven, even of God ; the Holy Ghost was the Author of it" (VII. vi. 1). Indeed, inasmuch as our Blessed Lord,... | |
 | Edward Harold Browne - 1882 - 916 pages
...givesno sanction to mere presbyterian ordination. We must conclude then with Hooker, ' If anything in the Church's government, surely the first institution of bishops was from Heaven, even of God.'2 And with Bp. Hall, ' What inevitable necessity may do, we now dispute not/ yet ' for... | |
 | Christopher Wordsworth - Church history - 1883 - 560 pages
...of the blessed Apostles." And " let us not fear to be herein bold and peremptory, that if anything in the Church's government, surely the first institution of Bishops was from heaven, even of God ; the Holy Ghost was the Author of it" (VIL vi. i). Indeed, inasmuch as our Blessed Lord,... | |
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Wherefore let us not fear to be herein bold and peremptory, that if any thing in the church's government, surely the first institution of bishops was from heaven, was even of God ; the Holy Ghost was the author of it. 
