1. Conclus.
THis Synode was not extraordinary, either in regard of the infallible assistance of the persons in it, or the immediate revelation of the truths therein discussed and decreed
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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- 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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- Hooker, Thomas, 1586-1647.
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- M.DC.XLVIII. [1648]
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"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." In the digital collection Early English Books Online 2. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A86533.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 15, 2024.
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Its true, the Apostles were extraordinary men in regard of their Places and Office, but that was not here attended, nor in vertue of that they did act; There is jus singulare, and jus commune sayes Junius. The second is here attended. They were Pastors which had ordinary abilities, as well as Apostles, which had extraordinary assistances, and they acted in the former re∣lation.
For in extraordinary revelations and infallible assistances, men do not joyne Ordinary Churches in their consultations and inquiries; but so the whole Work was carried here: The men disputed, inquired; each man had allowed liberty to propound his thoughts, had recourse to the Scriptures, and reasoned out of them, Act. 15.7, 8, to 18.
And ergo the Lord here leaves a Copy and Samplar to all suc∣ceeding Generations, how to seek the truth by way of triall in the use of such meanes which he hath appointed.