...positive, eternal and temporary, immntablc and variable, he came with all this strength of morbest way for us and the strongest against them were to...found some particular form of church polity which God had instituted, and which for that very cause bclongeth to all churches at all times. But with any...

...neither Christ nor His apostles at any time taught it, but the contrary. If, therefore, we did seek to maintain that which most advantageth our own cause,...which for that very cause belongeth to all Churches, to all times. But with any such partial eye to respect ourselves, and by cunning to make those things...

...all." 2 Hooker, to be sure, thinks the Scriptures favorable, rather than otherwise, to episcopacy. " If we did seek," he says, "to maintain that which...advantageth our own cause, the very best way for us and strongest against them were to hold even as they do, that in Scripture there must needs be some particular...

...Zwingli, and Calvin, which led them, while professing to be guided by the even as they [the Puritans] do, that in Scripture there must needs be found some...which for that very cause belongeth to all Churches to all times' (EP 1n. x. 8). 1 Beard, op. cit. p. 123: ' Maneat ergo hoc fixum, quos Spiritus sanctus...

...left to the imperfect wisdom of successive generations of men?' Moreover, '"If therefore we did seek to maintain that which most advantageth our own cause,...very best way for us and the strongest against them [ecclesiastical opponents] were to hold, even as they do, that in Scripture there must needs be found...

...particularly in the light of such a passage as the following from the third book : ' If therefore we did seek to maintain that which most advantageth our own cause,...which for that very cause belongeth to all churches, to all times. But with any such partial eye to respect ourselves, and by cunning to make those things...

...expediency, and even hints that it might be strongly defended upon a Scriptural basis. If we did seek to maintain that which most advantageth our own cause,...strongest against them were to hold even as they do, that there must needs be found in Scripture some particular form of church polity which God hath instituted,...

...the strongest against them were to hold even as they do, that there must needs be found in Scripture some particular form of church polity which God hath...which for that very cause belongeth to all churches, to all times. But with any such partial eye to respect ourselves, and by coming to make those things...

...that which we against them uphold) are in the Scrip" tures contained." And again, " If we did seek to maintain " that which most advantageth our own...against them, were to hold " even as they do, that there must needs be found in Scrip" ture some particular form of church polity which God hath " instituted,...