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A44337 Judicious Hooker's illustrations of Holy Scripture in his ecclesiastical policy; Ecclesiastical polity. Selections Hooker, Richard, 1553 or 4-1600.; Barksdale, Clement, 1609-1687. 1675 (1675) Wing H2634; ESTC R4356 20,633 51

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effects without Travel Pain or Labour But his commanding those things to be which are and to be in such sort as they are to keep that tenure and course which they do importeth the establishment of Natures Law S. 3. vi Mat. 6. 10. Touching Angels which are Spirits immaterial and intellectual the glorious Inhabitants of those sacred palaces where nothing but Light and blessed Immortalitie for ever dwell as in number and order they are huge mighty and royal Armies so likewise in perfection of Obedience to that Law which the Highest whom they adore love and imitate hath imposed upon them such Observants they are thereof that our Saviour himself being to set down the perfect Idea of that which we are to pray and wish for on earth did not teach to pray or wish for more than only that here it might be with us as with them it is in Heaven vii Deut 13. 19 Goodness is seen with the Eye of the Understanding and the light of that Eye is Reason So that two principal Fountains there are of humane Action Knowledge and Will Which will in things tending towards any end is termed Choice Concern●ng Knowledge behold saith Moses I have set before you this day Good and Evil Life and Death Concerning Will he addeth immediately choose Life that is to say the things that tend unto Life them choose S. 7. viii Rom. 2. 14. The Apostle St. Paul having speech concerning the Heathens saith of them They are a Law unto themselves His meaning is that by force of the light of reason wherewith God illuminateth every one which cometh into the World men being enabled to know Truth from Falshood and Good from Evil do thereby learn in many things what the Will of God is Which Will himself not revealing by any extraordinary means unto them but they by Natural Discourse attaining the knowledge thereof seem the Makers of those Laws vvhich indeed are his and they but only the Finders of them out S. 8. ix 2 Cor. 4. 17. Small difficulties when exceeding great good is sure to ensue and on the other side momentany benefits when the hurt which they draw after them is unspeakable are not at all to be respected Upon this infallible ground the Apostle enjoyneth patience to himself The present lightness of our Affliction worketh unto us even with abundance upon abundance an eternal weight of Glory while we look not c. Therefore Christianity to be embraced whatsoever Calamities in those times it was accompanied withal ib. x. Mat 22. 38. Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy Heart c. This is the first and great Commandement saith our Saviour and the next is like unto it He meaneth in amplitude and largeness in as much as it is the Root out of which all Laws of Duty to Men-ward have grown as out of the former all Offices of Religion towards God ib. xi 2 Pet. 2. 5. We all make complaint of the iniquity of our times not unjustly for the dayes are evil But compare them with those times wherein there were no civil Societies with those times wherein there was as yet no manner of publick Regiment established with those times wherein there were not above eight persons righteous living upon the face of the earth and we have surely good cause to think that God hath blessed us exceedingly and hath made us behold most happy dayes S. 10. xii Joh. 6 29. The way of supernatural Duty which God hath prescribed to us our Saviour in the Gospel of St. Iohn doth note terming it by an excellency the Work of God This is the Work of God that ye believe in him whom he hath sent Not that God doth require nothing unto Happiness at the hands of men saving only a naked belief for Hope and Charity we may not exclude but that without belief all other things are as nothing S. 11. xiii Ioh. 20. 31. The main drift of the whole New Testament is that which St. Iohn setteth down as the purpose of his own History These things are written that ye might believe that Iesus is Christ the Son of God and that in believing ye might have life through his Nam● The drift of the old that which the Apostle mentioneth to Timothy 2 Tim. 3. 15. The holy Scripturees are able to make thee Wise unto Salvation So that the general end both of old and new is one The difference between them consisting in this that the old did make wise by teaching Salvation through Christ that should come the New by teaching that Christ the Saviour is come and that Jesus whom the Iews did crucifie and whom God did raise again from the dead is He. When the Apostle therefore affirmed unto Timothy that the Old was able to make him Wise unto Salvation it was not his meaning that the Old alone can do this unto us which live since the publication of the New For he speaketh with presupposal of the Doctrine of Christ known also unto Timothy And he addeth Through the Faith which is in Christ. 14. xiv Apoc. 14 6. St. Iohn peculiarly terms the Doctrine that teacheth Salvation by Jesus Christ Evangelium aeternum an eternal Gospel because there can be no reason wherefore the publishing thereof should be taken away and any other instead of it proclaimed as long as the World doth continue Whereas the whole Law of Rites and Ceremonies although delivered with so great solemnity is notwithstanding clean abrogated in as much as it had but temporary cause of God's ordaining of it 15. xv Rom. 13. 1. Let every soul be subject to the higher powers The publick power of all Societies is above ever Soul contained in the same Societies And the principal use of that power is to give Laws unto all that are under it Which Laws in such case we must obey unless there be reason shewed which may necessarily enforce that the Law of Reason or of God doth enjoyn the contrary Because except our own private and but probable Resolutions be by the Law of publick Determinations over-ruled we take away all possibility of sociable Life in the World 16. xvi Act. 15 20. As mens private fancies must give place to the higher Judgment of that Church which is in Authority a Mother over them So the very actions of whole Churches have in regard of Commerce and Fellowship with other Churches been subject to Law the contrary unto which had else been thought more convenient for them to observe as by that order Act. 15. of abstinence from strangled and bloud may appear an order grounded upon that Fellowship which the Churches of the Gentiles had with the Iews ib. In Book II. i. 2 Tim. 3. 16. The whole Scripture is given-that the man of God may be absolute being made perfect unto all good works He meaneth all and only those good Works which belong unto us as we are men of God and which unto Salvation are necessary Or if we understand by men of God