Excerpt from The Works of That Learned and Judicious Divine, Mr. Richard Hooker, Vol. 2: With an Account of His Life and Death
Having therefore drawn out a complete form, as they supposedf, of public service to be done to God, and set down their plot for the office of the ministry in that behalf; they very well knew how little their labours so far forth bestowed would avail them in the end, without a claim of jurisdiction to uphold the fabric which they had erected and this neither likely to be Obtained but by the strong hand of the people, nor the people unlikely to favour it; the moreg, if overture were made of their own interest, right, and title thereunto. Whereupon there are many which have con jectured this to be the cause, why in all the projects of their discipline (it being manifest that their drift is to wrest the key of spiritual authority out of the hands of former governors, and equally to possess therewith the pastors of all several congregations) the people, first for surer accomplishment, and then for better defence thereof, are pretended7 necessary actors in those things, whereunto their ability for the most part is as slender, as their title and challenge unjust.
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