 | William Montgomery Brown - 1899 - 548 pages
...conviction to the reader. Hooker : " Let us not fearto be herein bold and peremptory, that, if anything in the Church's government, surely the first institution...God: the Holy Ghost was the author of it." Bishop Bilson : " Of this [the Apostolical Succession] there is so perfect record, in all the stories and... | |
 | Francis Paget - Rites and ceremonies - 1899 - 292 pages
...Let us not fear to be herein " bold and peremptory, that if anything in the Church's govern" ment, surely the first institution of bishops was from heaven,...was even of God, the Holy Ghost was the author of it 2." But while he held this clear conviction on the chief point, he maintained a reserve which is also... | |
 | Guy Carleton Lee - Great Britain - 1900 - 642 pages
...of the word and sacraments . . . Let us not fear to be herein bold and peremptory, that, if anything in the Church's government, surely the first institution...even of God: the Holy Ghost was the author of it. (e) The drift of all that hath been alleged to prove perpetual separation and independency between... | |
 | Guy Carleton Lee - Great Britain - 1900 - 652 pages
...of the word and sacraments . . . Let us not fear to be herein bold and peremptory, that, if anything in the Church's government, surely the first institution...even of God : the Holy Ghost was the author of it. (e) The drift of all that hath been alleged to prove perpetual separation and independency between... | |
 | Vernon Staley - England - 1907 - 250 pages
...contentions, and schisms, without some like divine instigation and direction of the Holy Ghost? Wherefore let us not fear to be herein bold and peremptory,...even of God, the Holy Ghost was the author of it."— Bk. VII. ch. v. § 10. " The whole Church visible being the true original subject of all power, it... | |
 | Henry Duff Traill, James Saumarez Mann - Great Britain - 1909 - 432 pages
...reasonable — but he says, " Let us not fear to be 16031 heroin bold and peremptory, that, if anything in the Church's government, surely the first institution...even of God ; the Holy Ghost was the author of it." In spite of his dislike of dogmatism, his own opinions are clear. He gives a list of authorities from... | |
 | Arthur Jay Klein - Church and state - 1917 - 240 pages
...in his exaltation of episcopacy. Let us not fear to be herein bold and peremptory, that if anything in the Church's government, surely the first institution...was even of God; the Holy Ghost was the author of it.2 1 This we boldly therefore set down as a most infallible truth, that the Church of Christ is at... | |
 | Richard Hooker, John Keble - 814 pages
...contentions, and schisms, without some like divine instigation and direction of the Holy Ghost ? Wherefore let us not fear to be herein bold and peremptory,...was even of God, the Holy Ghost was the author of it1. What VI. "A Bishop," saith St. Augustine2, "is a Presbyter's oTpower "superior:" but the question... | |
 | Richard Hooker, John Keble, Richard William Church - 626 pages
...entertained these exalted ideas was from the beginning an episcopal ministry. " Let us not," he says, " fear to be herein bold and peremptory, that if any...even of God ; the Holy " Ghost was the author of it." Nay, he has marked his opinion yet more forcibly, by stating elsewhere, that he had 1 EPV Ixxvii. 1.... | |
 | Brendan Bradshaw, Eamon Duffy - Religion - 1989 - 280 pages
...Book of Common Prayer (Oxford, 1840), pp. 202-3. 91 Whitgift, Works, II, 405; Hooker, Laws, VIII.5.10, 'the first institution of bishops was from heaven,...even of God, the Holy Ghost was the author of it'. 92 See the abrasive message from the House of Commons to the Westminster Assembly of Divines, 30 April... | |
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Wherefore let us not fear to be herein bold and peremptory, that if any thing in the church's government, surely the first institution of bishops was from heaven, was even of God ; the Holy Ghost was the author of it. 
