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Richard Hooker

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“Change is not made without inconvenience, even from worse to better.”
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Recorded in: Quoted by Samuel Johnson in the preface to A Dictionary of the English Language (1755)
“They saw that to live by one man's will became the cause of all men's misery.”
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Recorded in: Book I. Ch. x. 5, in The Works of That Learned and Judicious Divine, Mr. Richard Hooker: With An Account of His Life and Death by Isaac Walton. Vol. I, ed. John Keble (1845 ed.), p. 243
“It is an axiom of Nature that natural desire cannot utterly be frustrate.”
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Recorded in: Book I. Ch. xi. 4, quoted in The Works of That Learned and Judicious Divine, Mr. Richard Hooker: With An Account of His Life and Death, by Isaac Walton. Vol. I, ed. John Keble (1845 ed.), p. 257
“[O]f 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: both Angels and men and creatures of what condition soever, though each in different sort and manner, yet all with uniform consent, admiring her as the mother of their peace and joy.”
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Recorded in: Book I. Ch. xvi. 8, quoted in The Works of That Learned and Judicious Divine, Mr. Richard Hooker: With An Account of His Life and Death by Isaac Walton. Vol. I, ed. John Keble (1845 ed.), p. 285
“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.”
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“By the Church therefore in this question we under stand no other than only the visible Church. For preservation of Christianity there is not any thing more needful, than that such as are of the visible Church have mutual fellowship and society one with another. In which consideration, as the main body of the sea being one, yet within divers precincts hath divers names; so the Catholic Church is in like sort divided into a number of distinct Societies, every of which is termed a Church within itself.”
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Recorded in: Book III. Ch. i. 14, in The Works of That Learned and Judicious Divine, Mr. Richard Hooker: With An Account of His Life and Death by Isaac Walton. Vol. I, ed. John Keble (1845 ed.), p. 351
“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.”
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“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.”
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“Words must be taken according to the matter whereof they are uttered.”
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Recorded in: Book IV. Ch. xi. 7, in The Works of That Learned and Judicious Divine, Mr. Richard Hooker: With An Account of His Life and Death by Isaac Walton. Vol. I, ed. John Keble (1845 ed.), p. 457
“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?”
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Recorded in: Book V. Ch. i. 2, in The Works of That Learned and Judicious Divine, Mr. Richard Hooker: With An Account of His Life and Death by Isaac Walton. Vol. II, ed. John Keble (1845 ed.), p. 14
“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.”
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Recorded in: Book V. Ch. lxv. 7, in The Works of That Learned and Judicious Divine, Mr. Richard Hooker: With An Account of His Life and Death by Isaac Walton. Vol. II, ed. John Keble (1845 ed.), p. 323
“Without order there is no living in public society, what the because the want thereof is the mother of confusion, whereupon upon division of necessity followeth, and out of division, inevitable destruction. The Apostle therefore giving instruction to public societies, requireth that all things be orderly done. Order can have no place in things, unless it be settled amongst the persons that shall by office be conversant about them. And if things or persons be ordered, this doth imply that they are distinguished by degrees. For order is a gradual disposition.”
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Recorded in: Book VIII. Ch. ii. 2, in The Works of That Learned and Judicious Divine, Mr. Richard Hooker: With An Account of His Life and Death by Isaac Walton. Vol. III, ed. John Keble (1845 ed.), pp. 341-342
“The whole world consisting of parts so many, so different, is by this only thing upheld; he which framed them hath set them in order. Yea, the very Deity itself both keepeth and requireth for ever this to be kept as a law, that wheresoever there is a coagmentation of many, the lowest be knit to the highest by that which being interjacent may cause each to cleave unto other, and so all to continue one.”
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Recorded in: Book VIII. Ch. ii. 2, in The Works of That Learned and Judicious Divine, Mr. Richard Hooker: With An Account of His Life and Death. by Isaac Walton. Vol. III, ed. John Keble (1845 ed.), p. 342
“When therefore Christian kings are said to have spiritual dominion or supreme power in ecclesiastical affairs and causes, the meaning is, that within their own precincts and territories they have authority and power to command even in matters of Christian religion, and that there is no higher nor greater that can in those causes over-command them, where they are placed to reign as kings. But withal we must likewise note that their power is termed supremacy, as being the highest, not simply without exception of any thing.”
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Recorded in: Book VIII. Ch. ii. 3, in The Works of That Learned and Judicious Divine, Mr. Richard Hooker: With An Account of His Life and Death by Isaac Walton. Vol. III, ed. John Keble (1845 ed.), p. 343
“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.”
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Recorded in: Book VIII, in The Works of Mr. Richard Hooker (That Learned and Judicious Divine) in Eight Books of Ecclasiastical Polity (London: Thomas Newcombe for Andrew Crook, 1666), p. 470
“They [the Church of Rome] teach, as we do, that unto justice no man ever attained, but by the merits of Jesus Christ. They teach, as we do, that although Christ as God be the efficient, as man the meritorious, cause of our justice, yet in us also there is something required. God is the cause of our natural life; in him we live: but he quickeneth not the body without the soul in the body. Christ hath merited to make us just; but as a medicine which is made for health doth not heal by being made but by being applied, so by the merits of Christ there can be no justification without the application of his merits. Thus far we join hands with the Church of Rome.”
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Recorded in: A Learned Discourse of Justification, Works, and How the Foundation of Faith is Overthrown (1585), section 1.
“We ourselves do not teach Christ alone, excluding our own faith, unto justification, Christ alone, excluding our own works, unto sanctification, Christ alone, excluding the one or the other as unnecessary unto salvation. It is a childish cavil wherewith in the matter of justification our adversaries do so greatly please themselves, exclaiming that we tread all Christian virtues under our feet and require nothing in Christians but faith, because we teach that faith alone justifieth; whereas by this speech we never meant to exclude either hope and charity from being always joined as inseparable mates with faith in the man that is justified, or works from being added as necessary duties, required at the hands of every justified man, but to show that faith is the only hand which putteth on Christ unto justification, and Christ the only garment which, being so put on, covereth the shame of our defiled natures, hideth the imperfections of our works, preserveth us blameless in the sight of God, before whom otherwise the very weakness of our faith were cause sufficient to make us culpable, yea, to shut us out from the kingdom of heaven, where nothing that is not absolute can enter.”
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Recorded in: A Learned Discourse of Justification, Works, and How the Foundation of Faith is Overthrown (1585), section 11.
“Shall I think, because of this only error [in the doctrine of justification], that such a man [a Roman Catholic] toucheth not so much as the hem of Christ's garment? If he do, wherefore should not I have hope that virtue may proceed from Christ to save him? Because his error doth by consequent overthrow his faith shall I therefore cast him off as one who hath utterly cast of Christ, one who holdeth not so much as by a slender thread? No, I will not be afraid to say unto a cardinal or to a pope in this plight, Be of good comfort, we have to do with a merciful God, ready to make the best of that little which we hold well, and not with a captious sophister who gathereth the worst out of everything wherein we err.”
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Recorded in: A Learned Discourse of Justification, Works, and How the Foundation of Faith is Overthrown (1585), section 12.
“To fathers within their private families Nature hath given a supreme power; for which cause we see throughout the world even from the foundation thereof, all men have ever been taken as lords and lawful kings in their own houses. Howbeit over a whole grand multitude having no such dependency upon any one, and consisting of so many families as every politic society in the world doth, impossible it is that any should have complete lawful power, but by consent of men, or immediate appointment of God; because not having the natural superiority of fathers, their power must needs be either usurped, and then unlawful; or, if lawful, then either granted or consented unto by them over whom they exercise the same, or else given extraordinarily from God, unto whom all the world is subject.”
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Recorded in: Book I. Ch. x. 4, in The Works of That Learned and Judicious Divine, Mr. Richard Hooker: With An Account of His Life and Death by Isaac Walton. Vol. I, ed. John Keble (1845 ed.), p. 242
“That all things be done to the glory of God, the blessed Apostle (it is true) ex∣horteth. The glory of God is the admirable excellency of that Vertue Divine, which being made manifest, causeth Men and Angels to extol his greatness, and in regard thereof to fear him. By being glorified, it is not meant, that he doth receive any augmentation of glory at our hands; but his Name we glorifie, when we testifie our acknowledgement of his glory. Which albeit we most effectually do by the vertue of obedience; nevertheless it may be perhaps a Question, Whether S. Paul did mean that we sin as oft as ever we go about any thing, without an express intent and purpose to obey God therein. He saith of himself, I do in all things please all men, seeking not mine own commodity, but rather the good of many, that they may be saved. Shall it hereupon be thought, that St. Paul did not move either hand or foot, but with express intent even thereby to further the common salvation of men? We move, we sleep, we take the cup at the hand of our friend, a number of things we oftentimes do, only to satisfie some natural desire, without present, express and actual reference unto any Commandment of God. Unto his glory even these things are done which we naturally perform, and not only that which morally and spiritually we do. For by every effect proceeding from the most concealed instincts of Nature, his power is made manifest.”
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“Because we maintain that in Scripture we are taught all things necessary unto salvation; hereupon very childishly it is by some demanded, what Scripture can teach us the sacred authority of the Scripture, upon the knowledge whereof our whole faith and salvation dependeth? As though there were any kind of science in the world which leadeth men into knowledge without presupposing a number of things already known. No science doth make known the first principles whereon it buildeth, but they are always either taken as plain and manifest in themselves, or as proved and granted already, some former knowledge having made them evident. Scripture teacheth all supernatural revealed truth, without the knowledge whereof salvation cannot be attained. The main principle whereupon our belief of all things therein contained dependeth, is, that the Scriptures are the oracles of God himself. This in itself we cannot say is evident. For then all men that hear it would acknowledge it in heart, as they do when they hear that "every whole is more than any part of that whole," because this in itself is evident. The other we know that all do not acknowledge when they hear it. There must be therefore some former knowledge presupposed which doth herein assure the hearts of all believers. Scripture teacheth us that saving truth which God hath discovered unto the world by revelation, and it presumeth us taught other wise that itself is divine and sacred.”
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Recorded in: Book III. Ch. viii. 13, in The Works of That Learned and Judicious Divine, Mr. Richard Hooker: With An Account of His Life and Death by Isaac Walton. Vol. I, ed. John Keble (1845 ed.), pp. 375-376
“We agree that pure and unstained religion ought to be the highest of all cares appertaining to public regiment: as well in regard of that aid and protection which they who faithfully serve God confess they receive at his merciful hands; as also for the force which religion hath to qualify all sorts of men, and to make them in public affairs the more serviceable, governors the apter to rule with conscience, inferiors for conscience sake the willinger to obey. It is no peculiar conceit, but a matter of sound consequence, that all duties are by so much the better performed, by how much the men are more religious from whose abilities the same proceed. For if the course of politic affairs cannot in any good sort go forward without fit instruments, and that which fitteth them be their virtues, let Polity acknowledge itself indebted to Religion; godliness being the chiefest top and wellspring of all true virtues, even as God is of all good things.”
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Recorded in: Book V. Ch. i. 2, in The Works of That Learned and Judicious Divine, Mr. Richard Hooker: With An Account of His Life and Death by Isaac Walton. Vol. II, ed. John Keble (1845 ed.), pp. 13-14
“We hold; that seeing there is not any man of the Church of England but the same man is also a member of the commonwealth; nor any man a member of the commonwealth, which is not also of the Church of England; therefore as in a figure triangular the base doth differ from the sides thereof, and yet one and the selfsame line is both a base and also a side; a side simply, a base if it chance to be the bottom and underlie the rest: so, albeit properties and actions of one kind do cause the name of a commonwealth, qualities and functions of another sort the name of a Church to be given unto a multitude, yet one and the selfsame multitude may in such sort be both, and is so with us, that no person appertaining to the one can be denied to be also of the other.”
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Recorded in: Book VIII. Ch. i. 2, in The Works of That Learned and Judicious Divine, Mr. Richard Hooker: With An Account of His Life and Death by Isaac Walton. Vol. III, ed. John Keble (1845 ed.), p. 330
“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.”
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“That to live by one man's will became the cause of all men's misery.”
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“Cupid and my Campaspe play'd At cards for kisses: Cupid paid. He stakes his quiver, bow, and arrows, His mother's doves, and team of sparrows: Loses them too. Then down he throws The coral of his lip, the rose Growing on 's cheek (but none knows how); With these, the crystal of his brow, And then the dimple on his chin: All these did my Campaspe win. At last he set her both his eyes: She won, and Cupid blind did rise. O Love! has she done this to thee? What shall, alas! become of me?”
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“How at heaven's gates she claps her wings, The morne not waking til she sings.”
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