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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They must bestow their whole time, partly by way of prepara∣tiō Page  27 to furnish themselves for the work. A good steward lays in old & new, or else he could not bring it out, Mat. 13.52. 1 Tim. 4.13. 2 Tim. 4.13. partly in his dispensatiō, 2 Tim. 4.1, 2. Act. 20.34