A survey of the summe of church-discipline. Wherein the vvay of the churches of New-England is warranted out of the vvord, and all exceptions of weight, which are made against it, answered : whereby also it will appear to the judicious reader, that something more must be said, then yet hath been, before their principles can be shaken, or they should be unsetled in their practice.
Hooker, Thomas, 1586-1647.
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Because these under this Institution are media cultus, and are so more efficacious to carry the minde and heart to God, as the Papists require, and such as all Orthodoxe Divines con∣demn. Nay if it be by teaching and stirring towards these su∣pernaturall works, as Gods spirituall worship.
Its that which the Lord condemns in Images, which tell lies, Its that which the Lord threatens to punish. Isa, 29.19. That his fear is taught by the precepts of men.
