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The works of that learned and judicious divine, Mr. Richard Hooker (1807)
The works of that learned and judicious divine Mr Richard Hooker - 1807 Author:Richard Hooker Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: OP THE ECCLESIASTICAL POLITY. BOOK I. Concerning Laws, and their feveral kinds in general. The Matter contained in this Firft Book. I. Th... more »e caufe of 'writing this general Difcourfe concerning BOOK Laws. 1 . Of that Law which God from the beginning bath fet- for himfelf, to do all things by. 3. The Law which natural agents obferve, and their necejjary manner of keeping it. 4. The Law which the Angels of God obey. 5. The Law whereby Man is in his actions directed to the imitation of God. 6. Men's jirjl beginning to under/land that Law. 7. Of Man's Will, which is the jirft thing that Laws of Action are made to guide. . o a 8. Of Book 8. Of the natural finding out of Laws by the light of 1 Reafon, to guide the will unto that which is good. 9. Of the benefit of keeping that Law which Reafon teacheth. 10. How Reafon doth lead men unto the making of human Laws, whereby politic Societies are governed, and to agreement about Laws, whereby the fellowJhip or communion of independent Societies jlandeth. 11. Wherefore God hath by Scripture further made known fuch Jupernatural Laws, as do ferve for men's direftion. 12. "The caufe why fa many natural or rational Laws are Jet down in holy Scripture. 13. The benefit of having divine Laws written. 14. The fufficiency of Scripture unto the end for which it was inftituted. 15. Of Laws pofitive contained in Scripture; the mutability of certain of them, and the general ufe of Scripture. 16. A ConcluJton, fhewing bow all this belongeth to the caufe in quejlion. The caufe of JTIE that goeth about to perfuade a multitude, genera! IHtthat tneV« less