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Quotes from Of the Lawes of Ecclesiastical Politie — Richard Hooker

1554–1600 England

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Words must be taken according to the matter whereof they are uttered.

Of the Lawes of Ecclesiastical Politie (1594)

It is an axiom of Nature that natural desire cannot utterly be frustrate.

Of the Lawes of Ecclesiastical Politie (1594)

The nature of every Law must be judged of by the end for which it was made, and by the aptness of things therein prescribed unto the same end.

Of the Lawes of Ecclesiastical Politie (1594)

They saw that to live by one man's will became the cause of all men's misery.

Of the Lawes of Ecclesiastical Politie (1594)

The mind while we are in this present life, whether it contemplate, meditate, deliberate, or howsoever exercise itself, worketh nothing without continual recourse unto imagination, the only storehouse of wit and peculiar chair of memory.

Of the Lawes of Ecclesiastical Politie (1594)

Our naming of Jesus Christ the Lord is not enough to prove us Christians, unless we also embrace that Faith which Christ hath published unto the World.

Of the Lawes of Ecclesiastical Politie (1594)

The safest, and unto God the most acceptable way of framing our lives is with all Humility, Lowliness, and Singleness of Heart, to study which way our willing Obedience, both unto God and Man, may be yielded, even to the utmost of that which is due.

Of the Lawes of Ecclesiastical Politie (1594)

So natural is the union of Religion with Justice, that we may boldly deem there is neither, where both are not. For how should they be unfeignedly just, whom religion doth not cause to be such; or they religious, which are not found such by the proof of their just actions?

Of the Lawes of Ecclesiastical Politie (1594)

The Parliament of England...is that whereupon the very essence of all Government within this Kingdom doth depend; it is even the body of the whole Realm; it consisteth of the King, and of all that within the Land are subject unto him.

Of the Lawes of Ecclesiastical Politie (1594)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Richard Hooker (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.