Of the Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity, Book 1 by Richard Hooker (1554 - 1600)
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Hooker resolved to investigate the position of the English Church, and to attempt to answer the question What is the basis upon which Church laws and Church government rest? And his magnum opus ‘The Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity’ was the result. The Puritan system with which Richard Hooker found himself face to face, and which he so resolutely and courageously set himself the task of discrediting, speaking broadly, was based on the assumption that, in all matters affecting religious worship, discipline, and government, an unchangeable rule is laid down in Holy Scripture, and in Holy Scripture alone. It was held (by t...
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The cause of writing this general Discourse concerning Laws
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Of that Law which God from before the beginning hath set for himself, to do all things by
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The Law which natural agents observe, and their necessary manner of keeping it
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The Law which the Angels of God obey
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The Law whereby Man is in his actions directed to the imitation of God
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Men's first beginning to understand that Law
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Of Man's Will, which is the first thing that Laws of Action are made to guide
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Of the natural finding out of Laws by the light of Reason, to guide the will unto that which is good
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Of the benefit of keeping that Law which Reason teacheth
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How Reason doth lead men unto the making of human Laws, whereby politic Societies are governed, and to agreeme…
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Wherefore God hath by Scripture further made known such supernatural Laws as do serve for men's direction
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The cause why so many natural or rational Laws are set down in Holy Scripture
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The benefit of having divine Laws written
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The sufficiency of Scripture unto the end for which it was instituted
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Of Laws positive contained in Scripture; the mutability of certain of them, and the general use of Scripture
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A Conclusion, shewing how all this belongeth to the cause in question