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.
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Argument. 3.

Its lawfull for a Prince to require the help of faculties and a∣bilities of his subjects, to consider, to advise for the good of the publike.

This his Royall place, and their homage evidenceth.

But to call what persons of the Churches, he conceives most fit to meet and concurre for councell, is to improve the facul∣ties and abilities of his subjects for the common good, ergo.

And if it was lawfull for them to refuse, there must needs follow, not onely rebellion on their part, but certaine ruine to the whole.