 | R. Buick Knox - 1967 - 226 pages
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 | Richard Hooker, John Keble - 814 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,...was even of God, the Holy Ghost was the author of it1. What VI. "A Bishop," saith St. Augustine2, "is a Presbyter's oTpower "superior:" but the question... | |
 | Richard Hooker, John Keble, Richard William Church - 626 pages
...entertained these exalted ideas was from the beginning an episcopal ministry. " Let us not," he says, " fear to be herein bold and peremptory, that if any...even of God ; the Holy " Ghost was the author of it." Nay, he has marked his opinion yet more forcibly, by stating elsewhere, that he had 1 EPV Ixxvii. 1.... | |
 | Brendan Bradshaw, Eamon Duffy - Religion - 1989 - 280 pages
...Book of Common Prayer (Oxford, 1840), pp. 202-3. 91 Whitgift, Works, II, 405; Hooker, Laws, VIII.5.10, 'the first institution of bishops was from heaven,...even of God, the Holy Ghost was the author of it'. 92 See the abrasive message from the House of Commons to the Westminster Assembly of Divines, 30 April... | |
 | Michael Watts - Religion - 1993 - 212 pages
...expressed further on in Book VII: 'Let us not 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.'26 Whatever we make of Hooker's own position on this matter, he was undoubtedly claimed by later... | |
 | Paul D. L. Avis - Religion - 2002 - 422 pages
...whatsoever is of God (EP, VII, i , 4: 3 , p. In the face of the Presbyterian challenge, Hooker is not afraid 'to be herein bold and peremptory, that if any thing...even of God, the Holy Ghost was the author of it' (EP, VII, v, 10: 3, p. 168). What could possess the nation, Hooker demands, to forsake episcopacy,... | |
 | Charles Bigg - 2006 - 244 pages
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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. 
