| Charles Daubeny - 1830 - 1120 pages
...Wherefore let us not fear to be herein bold and peremptory ; that if any thing in the Church's regiment, surely the first institution of bishops was from heaven,...even of God, the Holy Ghost was the author of it."' If we say, then, that in every Church that was planted, the offices of bishop, priest, and deacon,... | |
| Richard Hooker, Henry Clissold - Church polity - 1831 - 168 pages
...contentions, and schisms, without some like divine instigation and direction of the Holy Ghost? Wherefore let us not fear to be herein bold and peremptory,...even of God ; the Holy Ghost was the author of it. 9. Episcopacy — its antiquity in Britain. In the histories of the Church we find very ancient mention... | |
| James Bassnett Mills - Dissenters - 1831 - 434 pages
..." lift os not fear to be herein bold and peremptory ; that if any tiling in the Church's regiment, surely the first Institution of Bishops was from Heaven,...was even of God; the Holy Ghost was the Author of it " Hooker's EccL Pol. B. VII. " I am, for my part, so confident of the Divine Institution of the majority... | |
| William Bailey (A.B.) - 534 pages
...eminently pious Hooker — " Wherefore let us not fear to be herein bold and peremptory, that if anything in the Church's Government, surely the first institution...even of God ; the Holy Ghost was the author of it." (Eccles. Pol. Book vii. sec. 5.). The Seventh Book, which handles the question of Episcopacy, as far... | |
| George Washington Doane - 1834 - 36 pages
...the Apostles acted without the Spirit 1 " Wherefore let us not fear" with matchless Richard Hooker, " to be herein bold and peremptory, that if any thing...was even of God : the Holy Ghost was the author of it."J If it, indeed, be so, — let the question be well weighed, with due regard of all the consequences... | |
| John Henry Hopkins - Episcopacy - 1835 - 412 pages
...contentions, and schisms, without tome divine instigation and direction of the Holy Ghost? Wherefore, let us not fear to be herein bold and peremptory,...first institution of bishops was from heaven, was even from God ; the Holy Ghost was the author of it.' CHAPTER II. Is Episcopacy essential to the being of... | |
| Richard Hooker - 1839 - 656 pages
...contentions, and schisms, without some like divine instigation and direction of the Holy Ghost ? Wherefore let us not fear to be herein bold and peremptory,...even of God; the Holy Ghost was the author of it. mannerof VI. A bishop, saith St. Augustine, is a presbyter's supeulshops ™or : but the question is... | |
| Richard Hooker, Izaak Walton - Church of England - 1841 - 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 else50 EPV Ixxvii. i. Ixxii Supposed Erastianism... | |
| Theology - 1841 - 776 pages
...vii. 5, 10 (Keble), " Wherefore let us not fear to be herein bold and peremptory, that, if anything in the church's government, surely the first institution...of God, — the Holy Ghost was the author of it." Can words be stronger? If then Hooker be quoted, as he has been, in favour of the presbyterian platform,... | |
| 1841 - 760 pages
...vii. 5, 10 (Keble), " Whcrefwre let us not fear to be herein bold and peremptory, that, if anything in the church's government, surely the first institution...of God, — the Holy Ghost was the author of it." Can words be stronger? If then Hooker be quoted, as he has been, in favour of the presbyterian platform,... | |
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