An Analysis of the Fifth Book of Hooker's Ecclesiastical Polity, Adapted to Scholastic and Popular UseW. Macintosh, 1873 - 164 pages |
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Page 60 - When thou hadst overcome the sharpness of death, thou didst open the kingdom of heaven to all believers.
Page vi - There is no learning that this man hath not searched into ; nothing too hard for his understanding. This man indeed deserves the name of an author ; his books will get reverence by age, for there is in them such seeds of eternity, that if the rest be like this, they shall last till the last fire shall consume all learning.
Page xxviii - Creed, and that which is commonly called the Apostles' Creed, ought thoroughly to be received and believed: for they may be proved by most certain warrants of holy Scripture.
Page 83 - Thus therefore we see how the Father is in the Son, and the Son in the Father...
Page 117 - Popish construction : the last, 'this hallowed food, through concurrence of Divine Power, is in verity and truth, unto faithful receivers, instrumentally a cause of that mystical participation, whereby, as I make myself wholly theirs, so I give them in hand an actual possession of all such saving grace as my sacrificed Body can yield, and as their souls do presently need, this is to them and in them my...
Page 117 - this is in itself before participation, really and truly the natural substance of my body, by reason of the co-existence which my omnipotent body hath with the sanctified element of bread...
Page xvi - ... crooked wisdom so much, as not to be ashamed to hold foolish and unmannerly disputes against those men whom they ought to reverence, and those laws which they ought to obey...
Page 51 - ... and carried from the ear to the spiritual faculties of our souls, is by a native puissance and efficacy greatly available to bring to a perfect temper whatsoever is there troubled, apt as well to quicken the spirits as to allay that which is too eager, sovereign against melancholy and despair, forcible to draw forth tears of devotion, if the mind be such as can yield them, able both to move and to moderate all affections.
Page xviii - Dr. Beaumont for his intolerable stomach : whereof I had also afterwards such experience, that I was forced by due punishment so to weary him, till he was fain to travel...
Page xxii - I use the Scriptures, not as an arsenal, to be resorted to only for arms and weapons to defend this or that party, or to defeat its enemies; but as a matchless temple where I delight to be; to contemplate the beauty, the symmetry, and the magnificence of the structure, and to increase my awe, and excite my devotion to the Deity there preached and adored !"* Nor is gratitude less incumbent in daily Family reading.