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“Words must be taken according to the matter whereof they are uttered.”

“Of Law there can be no less acknowledged than that her seat is the bosom of God, her voice the harmony of the world. All things in heaven and earth do her homage,—the very least as feeling her care, and the greatest as not exempted from her power.”

“That to live by one man's will became the cause of all men's misery.”

“I observe there is in Mr. Hooker no affected language; but a grave, comprehensive, clear manifestation of reason, and that backed with the authority of the Scriptures, the fathers and schoolmen, and with all law both sacred and civil.”

“There is a wheel within a wheel; a secret sacred wheel of Providence , guided by His hand that allows not the race to the swift nor bread to the wise, nor good wives to good men: and He that can bring good out of evil only knows why this blessing was denied to patient Job, to meek Moses, and to our as meek and patient Mr Hooker.”

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