Even ministers of good things are like torches, a light to others, waste and destruction to themselves.

Of Law there can be no less acknowledged, than that her seat is the bosom of God, her voice the harmony of the world: all things in heaven and earth do her homage, the very least as feeling her care, and the greatest as not exempted from her power.

Even ministers of good things are like torches, a light to others, waste and destruction to themselves.

I observe there is in Mr. Hooker no affected language; but a grave, comprehensive, clear manifestation of reason, and that backed with the authority of the Scriptures, the fathers and schoolmen, and with all law both sacred and civil.

Whatsoever is good; the same is also approved of God.

The church is in Christ, as Eve was in Adam.

The reason why the simpler sort are moved by authority is the consciousness of their own ignorance