Words Must Be Taken According To The

To Live By One Man's Will Becomes The Cause Of All Misery.

Words Must Be Taken According To The Matter Whereof They Are Uttered.

For Men To Be Tied And Led By Authority, As It Were With A Kind Of Captivity Of Judgment, And Though There Be Reason To The Contrary Not To Listen Unto It, But To Follow Like Beasts The First In The Herd, They Know Not, Nor Care Not Whither, This Were Brutish.

Man Doth Seek A Triple Perfection: First A Sensual, Consisting In Those Things Which Very Life Itself Requireth Either As Necessary Supplements, Or As Beauties And Ornaments Thereof; Then An Intellectual, Consisting In Those Things Which None Underneath Man Is Either Capable Of Or Acquainted With; Lastly A Spiritual And Divine, Consisting In Those Things Whereunto We Tend By Supernatural Means Here, But Cannot Here Attain Unto Them.

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.