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. / By Tho. Hooker, late pastor of the church at Hartford upon Connecticott in N.E.

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Title: 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. / By Tho. Hooker, late pastor of the church at Hartford upon Connecticott in N.E.
Author: Hooker, Thomas, 1586-1647.
Publication: London :: Printed by A.M. for John Bellamy at the three Golden Lions in Cornhill, near the Royall Exchange,; M.DC.XLVIII. [1648]
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As thus he must give attendance, as Christs receiver, to gather in his rents and revenues of the Church: so he must be carefull to keep it, when it is in his custody, so that no lack come thereto; neither mispend it himself, nor suffer it to spoil in the keeping, nor lend it with disadvantage, so that it should returne lesse in worth, or be unready, when the Church hath occasion to have the improvement thereof.