 | Richard Hooker - Church polity - 1793 - 528 pages
...were brutifh. Again, that Authority of Men fhould prevail with Men either againft: or above Reafon, is no part of our belief. Companies of learned Men be they never fo great and reverend are to yield unto Reafon, the weight whereof is no whit prejudiced by the fimplicity... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English Language - 1805 - 954 pages
...against eve! у man, and every man's hand ag ainit him. Geneiii. i. Contrary ; opposite, in general. That authority of men should prevail with men either...against or above reason, is no part of our belief. Hooker, He is melancholy without cause, and merry againtt the hair. Shakspeare. We might work any effect... | |
 | Richard Hooker - Church polity - 1825 - 688 pages
...follow like beasts the first in the herd, they know not, nor care not whither, this were brutish. Again, that authority of men should prevail with men either...his person which doth allege it; but being found to bo sound and good, the bare opinion of men to the contrary must of necessity stoop and give place.... | |
 | James Foster - Trinity - 1836 - 310 pages
...listen to it, but follow like beasts the first in the herd, this were brutish.' Again : ' That the authority of men should prevail with men either against...is no part of our belief. Companies of learned men, though they be never so great and reverend, are to yield unto reason ; the weight whereof is no whit... | |
 | American periodicals - 1866 - 848 pages
...follow like beasts the first in the herd, they know not nor care not whither, this were brutish. Again, that authority of men should prevail with men either against or above reason is no pan of our belief. Companies of learned men, be they never so great and reverend, are to yield unto... | |
 | Richard Hooker - Church polity - 1850 - 652 pages
...follow like beasts the first in the herd, they know not nor care not whither, this were brutish. Again, that authority of men should prevail with men either...against or above Reason, is no part of our belief. " Com_ " panies of learned men " be they never so great and reverend, are to yield unto Reason ; the... | |
 | William McGirr - Free thought - 1854 - 418 pages
...according to what I Lave quoted in a former letter, as the judgment of the English Church: "That the authority of men should prevail with men, either against or above reason is no part of our belief." Therefore, with sentiments of respect, I conclude the present letter, and remain Yours, &c. WM. M'UiRK.... | |
 | Rowland Williams - 1855 - 456 pages
...ways be according unto their place and degree adored That authority of men should prevail with men against or above reason, is no part of our belief....whereof is no whit prejudiced by the simplicity of the person that doth allege it, but being found to be sound and good, the bare authority of men to... | |
 | Henry Thomas Buckle - Civilization - 1857 - 882 pages
...like beasts, the first in the herd, they know not nor care not whither : this were brutish. Again, that authority of men should prevail with men, either...so great and reverend, are to yield unto Reason." Book ii. sec. vii. vol. i. pp. 182, 183. In book v. sec. viii. vol. ii. p. 23, he says, that even "... | |
 | Henry Thomas Buckle - England - 1858 - 722 pages
...like beasts, the first in the herd, they know not nor care not whither : this were brutish. Again, that authority of men should prevail with men, either...they never so great and reverend, are to yield unto Keason." Book ii. sec. vii. vol. i. pp. 182, 183. In book v. sec. viii. vol. ii. p. 23, he says, that... | |
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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... 
