Richard Hooker

Abjection

That this should be termed baseness, abjection of mind, or servility, is it credible?

Acceptation

Some things . . . are notwithstanding of so great dignity and acceptation with God.

Acknowledgment

Immediately upon the acknowledgment of the Christian faith, the eunuch was baptized by Philip.

Act

The seeds of plants are not at first in act, but in possibility, what they afterward grow to be.

Allude

These speeches . . . do seem to allude unto such ministerial garments as were then in use.

Alteration

Alteration, though it be from worse to better, hath in it incoveniences.

Ancient

Junius and Andronicus . . . in Christianity . . . were his ancients.

Antagonist

Our antagonists in these controversies.

Appertain

Things appertaining to this life.

Appetite

The object of appetite it whatsoever sensible good may be wished for; the object of will is that good which reason does lead us to seek.

Ascertain

The divine law . . . ascertaineth the truth.

Attendance

Languishing attendance and expectation of death.

Available

Laws human are available by consent.

Beforehand

They may be taught beforehand the skill of speaking.

Belief

No man can attain [to] belief by the bare contemplation of heaven and earth.

In the heat of persecution to which Christian belief was subject upon its first promulgation.

Better

Their betters would hardly be found.

The works of nature do always aim at that which can not be bettered.

Bloom

Charitable affection bloomed them.

Boot

What booteth it to others that we wish them well, and do nothing for them?

Bosom

Within the bosom of that church.

But

It cannot be but nature hath some director, of infinite power, to guide her in all her ways.

Catechism

The Jews, even till this day, have their catechisms.

Champ

They began . . . irefully to champ upon the bit.

Choice

Choice there is not, unless the thing which we take be so in our power that we might have refused it.

Coessential

We bless and magnify that coessential Spirit, eternally proceeding from both [The Father and the Son].

Colorable

Colorable and subtle crimes, that seldom are taken within the walk of human justice.

Comfort

God's own testimony . . . doth not a little comfort and confirm the same.

Commodity

Men may seek their own commodity, yet if this were done with injury to others, it was not to be suffered.

Common

Such actions as the common good requireth.

Communion

We are naturally induced to seek communion and fellowship with others.

Comprehension

In the Old Testament there is a close comprehension of the New; in the New, an open discovery of the Old.

Conclude

The very person of Christ [was] concluded within the grave.

Conform

Demand of them wherefore they conform not themselves unto the order of the church.

Congregate

Any multitude of Christian men congregated may be termed by the name of a church.

Congruity

With what congruity doth the church of Rome deny that her enemies do at all appertain to the church of Christ?

Constitution

The positive constitutions of our own churches.

Continuate

We are of Him and in Him, even as though our very flesh and bones should be made continuate with his.

Contradict

No truth can contradict another truth.

Convict

Imagining that these proofs will convict a testament, to have that in it which other men can nowhere by reading find.

Correspondent

Action correspondent or repugnant unto the law.

Corrosive

Such speeches . . . are grievous corrosives.

Counsel

They all confess, therefore, in the working of that first cause, that counsel is used.

Countermand

For us to alter anything, is to lift ourselves against God; and, as it were, to countermand him.

Credible

Things are made credible either by the known condition and quality of the utterer or by the manifest likelihood of truth in themselves.

Credit

The things which we properly believe, be only such as are received on the credit of divine testimony.

Dark

What may seem dark at the first, will afterward be found more plain.

Debase

It is a kind of taking God's name in vain to debase religion with such frivolous disputes.

Defraud

Churches seem injured and defrauded of their rights.

Demonstrative

An argument necessary and demonstrative.

Deodate

Wherein that blessed widow's deodate was laid up.

Derogate

If we did derogate from them whom their industry hath made great.

Descent

No man living is a thousand descents removed from Adam himself.

Directly

No man hath hitherto been so impious as plainly and directly to condemn prayer.

Dissolution

To make a present dissolution of the world.

Distinction

To take away therefore that error, which confusion breedeth, distinction is requisite.

Disturber

A needless disturber of the peace of God's church and an author of dissension.

doctrinal

The word of God serveth no otherwise than in the nature of a doctrinal instrument.

doctrine

Articles of faith and doctrine.

Doubt

Even in matters divine, concerning some things, we may lawfully doubt, and suspend our judgment.

Dull

Attention of mind . . . wasted or dulled through continuance.

Dumb

To unloose the very tongues even of dumb creatures.

Earnest

They whom earnest lets do often hinder.

efficience

The manner of this divine efficiency being far above us.

Efficient

God . . . moveth mere natural agents as an efficient only.

Encroach

Superstition, . . . a creeping and encroaching evil.

Encumber

Not encumbered with any notable inconvenience.

Erect

Vigilant and erect attention of mind.

Estrange

Had we . . . estranged ourselves from them in things indifferent.

Eternal

Law whereby the Eternal himself doth work.

Every

Daily occasions given to every of us.

Excellency

Extinguish in men the sense of their own excellency.

Exclamation

Exclamations against abuses in the church.

Exorbitant

The Jews . . . [were] inured with causes exorbitant, and such as their laws had not provided for.

Expedite

To make the way plain and expedite.

Exulcerate

Minds exulcerated in themselves.

Fidelity

The principal thing required in a witness is fidelity.

Fiery

The sword which is made fiery.

Figurative

This, they will say, was figurative, and served, by God's appointment, but for a time, to shadow out the true glory of a more divine sanctity.

Flagrant

Flagrant desires and affections.

Flit

It became a received opinion, that the souls of men, departing this life, did flit out of one body into some other.

Flower

The choice and flower of all things profitable the Psalms do more briefly contain.

Follow

We had rather follow the perfections of them whom we like not, than in defects resemble them whom we love.

For

That which we, for our unworthiness, are afraid to crave, our prayer is, that God, for the worthiness of his Son, would, notwithstanding, vouchsafe to grant.

Forcible

That punishment which hath been sometimes forcible to bridle sin.

Formally

You and your followers do stand formally divided against the authorized guides of the church and rest of the people.

Generation

All generations and ages of the Christian church.

Gesture

Humble and reverent gestures.

It is not orderly read, nor gestured as beseemeth.

Gloss

It is no part . . . to set on the face of this cause any fairer gloss than the naked truth doth afford.

Heinous

It were most heinous and accursed sacrilege.

Hither

Hither we refer whatsoever belongeth unto the highest perfection of man.

Homage

All things in heaven and earth do her [Law] homage.

Hopeful

Men of their own natural inclination hopeful and strongly conceited.

Humiliation

The former was a humiliation of Deity; the latter a humiliation of manhood.

Illumination

Hymns and psalms . . . are framed by meditation beforehand, or by prophetical illumination are inspired.

Immaterial

Angels are spirits immaterial and intellectual.

Import

Every petition . . . doth . . . always import a multitude of speakers together.

Improbity

Persons . . . cast out for notorious improbity.

Incident

As the ordinary course of common affairs is disposed of by general laws, so likewise men's rarer incident necessities and utilities should be with special equity considered.

Incomprehensible

An infinite and incomprehensible substance.

Inconvenience

They plead against the inconvenience, not the unlawfulness, . . . of ceremonies in burial.

Indignity

A person of so great place and worth constrained to endure so foul indignities.

Individually

How should that subsist solitarily by itself which hath no substance, but individually the very same whereby others subsist with it?

Influence

God hath his influence into the very essence of all things.

Innovation

The love of things ancient doth argue stayedness, but levity and lack of experience maketh apt unto innovations.

Instancy

Those heavenly precepts which our Lord and Savior with so great instancy gave.

Instant

There is scarce an instant between their flourishing and their not being.

Institution

The institution of God's law is described as being established by solemn injunction.

Insufficiency

The insufficiency of the light of nature is, by the light of Scripture, . . . fully supplied.

Intent

The principal intent of Scripture is to deliver the laws of duties supernatural.

Interest

The mystical communion of all faithful men is such as maketh every one to be interested in those precious blessings which any one of them receiveth at God's hands.

Labor

Being a labor of so great a difficulty, the exact performance thereof we may rather wish than look for.

Level

The glory of God and the good of his church . . . ought to be the mark whereat we also level.

Lightsome

That lightsome affection of joy.

Limitation

The cause of error is ignorance what restraints and limitations all principles have in regard of the matter whereunto they are applicable.

List

Them that add to the Word of God what them listeth.

Litany

Supplications . . . for the appeasing of God's wrath were of the Greek church termed litanies, and rogations of the Latin.

Literal

A middle course between the rigor of literal translations and the liberty of paraphrasts.

Loam

We wash a wall of loam; we labor in vain.

Maim

Surely there is more cause to fear lest the want there of be a maim than the use of it a blemish.

Mean

Their virtuous conversation was a mean to work the conversion of the heathen to Christ.

Memorial

Churches have names; some as memorials of peace, some of wisdom, some in memory of the Trinity itself.

Misconceive

Those things which, for want of due consideration heretofore, they have misconceived.

Molest

They have molested the church with needless opposition.

Moral

Keep at the least within the compass of moral actions, which have in them vice or virtue.

Muster

Ye publish the musters of your own bands, and proclaim them to amount of thousands.

Mystic

God hath revealed a way mystical and supernatural.

Naught

Things naught and things indifferent.

Note

Whosoever appertain to the visible body of the church, they have also the notes of external profession.

Notwithstanding

They which honor the law as an image of the wisdom of God himself, are, notwithstanding, to know that the same had an end in Christ.

Nourishment

Learn to seek the nourishment of their souls.

Obdurate

The very custom of evil makes the heart obdurate against whatsoever instructions to the contrary.

Object

Some strong impediment or other objecting itself.

Oneness

Our God is one, or rather very oneness.

Order

The church hath authority to establish that for an order at one time which at another time it may abolish.

Otherwise

It is said, truly, that the best men otherwise are not always the best in regard of society.

Overcapable

Overcapable of such pleasing errors.

paradox

A gloss there is to color that paradox, and make it appear in show not to be altogether unreasonable.

Passible

Apolinarius, which held even deity itself passible.

Peculiar

Hymns . . . that Christianity hath peculiar unto itself.

Permit

What things God doth neither command nor forbid . . . he permitteth with approbation either to be done or left undone.

Personal

Every man so termed by way of personal difference.

Persuasion

If the general persuasion of all men does so account it.

Polity

Nor is possible that any form of polity, much less polity ecclesiastical, should be good, unless God himself be author of it.

Popular

Homilies are plain popular instructions.

Positive

In laws, that which is natural bindeth universally; that which is positive, not so.

Precedent

Examples for cases can but direct as precedents only.

Precious

Many things which are most precious are neglected only because the value of them lieth hid.

Presbyter

I rather term the one sort presbyter than priest.

Presentation

Prayers are sometimes a presentation of mere desires.

Presuppose

Each [kind of knowledge] presupposes many necessary things learned in other sciences, and known beforehand.

Prime

In the very prime of the world.

Rainfall

Supplied by the rainfall of the outer ranges of Sinchul and Singaleleh.

Reading

The Jews had their weekly readings of the law.

Recognition

The lives of such saints had, at the time of their yearly memorials, solemn recognition in the church of God.

Redress

Reformation of evil laws is commendable, but for us the more necessary is a speedy redress of ourselves.

Regard

Change was thought necessary in regard of the injury the church did receive by a number of things then in use.

Rehearsal

In rehearsal of our Lord's Prayer.

Relinquish

We ought to relinquish such rites.

Resemblance

These sensible things, which religion hath allowed, are resemblances formed according to things spiritual.

Revocation

One that saw the people bent for the revocation of Calvin, gave him notice of their affection.

Reward

Rewards and punishments do always presuppose something willingly done well or ill.

Righteousness

There are two kinds of Christian righteousness: the one without us, which we have by imputation; the other in us, which consisteth of faith, hope, and charity, and other Christian virtues.

Rogation

He perfecteth the rogations or litanies before in use.

Say

If those principal works of God . . . be but certain tastes and says, as it were, of that final benefit.

Scandalize

I demand who they are whom we scandalize by using harmless things.

Scandalous

Nothing scandalous or offensive unto any.

Scope

The scope of all their pleading against man's authority, is to overthrow such laws and constitutions in the church.

Scrupulous

Abusing their liberty, to the offense of their weak brethren which were scrupulous.

Secrecy

It is not with public as with private prayer; in this, rather secrecy is commanded than outward show.

Seeming

Nothing more clear unto their seeming.

Seemly

Suspense of judgment and exercise of charity were safer and seemlier for Christian men than the hot pursuit of these controversies.

Seldom

Wisdom and youth are seldom joined in one.

Sensual

The greatest part of men are such as prefer . . . that good which is sensual before whatsoever is most divine.

Sequester

When men most sequester themselves from action.

Serve

They think herein we serve the time, because thereby we either hold or seek preferment.

Session

So much his ascension into heaven and his session at the right hand of God do import.

Set

This law we may name eternal, being that order which God . . . hath set down with himself, for himself to do all things by.

Several

They had their several for heathen nations, their several for the people of their own nation.

Side

The law hath no side respect to their persons.

Sift

Sifting the very utmost sentence and syllable.

Simply

[They] make that now good or evil, . . . which otherwise of itself were not simply the one or the other.

Single

An agent singling itself from consorts.

Men . . . commendable when they are singled.

Singularity

No bishop of Rome ever took upon him this name of singularity [universal bishop].

Skill

Learned in one skill, and in another kind of learning unskillful.

Sociable

They are sociable parts united into one body.

Solemnize

Baptism to be administered in one place, and marriage solemnized in another.

Sort

Flowers, in such sort worn, can neither be smelt nor seen well by those that wear them.

Sovereign

We acknowledge him [God] our sovereign good.

Speciality

On these two general heads all other specialities are depedent.

Speculative

The mind of man being by nature speculative.

Square

They of Galatia [were] much more out of square.

Stain

Our opinion . . . is, I trust, without any blemish or stain of heresy.

Station

Their manner was to stand at prayer, whereupon their meetings unto that purpose . . . had the names of stations given them.

Stay

All that may stay their minds from thinking that true which they heartily wish were false.

Storehouse

The Scripture of God is a storehouse abounding with estimable treasures of wisdom and knowledge.

Subjection

Because the subjection of the body to the will is by natural necessity, the subjection of the will unto God voluntary, we stand in need of direction after what sort our wills and desires may be rightly conformed to His.

Sufferance

Somewhiles by sufferance, and somewhiles by special leave and favor, they erected to themselves oratories.

Surrender

To surrender up that right which otherwise their founders might have in them.

Sway

The example of sundry churches . . . doth sway much.

Syllable

Before any syllable of the law of God was written.

Tale

The ignorant, . . . who measure by tale, and not by weight.

Thereat

Every error is a stain to the beauty of nature; for which cause it blusheth thereat.

This

Their judgment in this we may not, and in that we need not, follow.

Touch

A true, natural, and a sensible touch of mercy.

Traduce

The best stratagem that Satan hath . . . is by traducing the form and manner of them [prayers], to bring them into contempt.

Travail

As everything of price, so this doth require travail.

Treatable

A kind of treatable dissolution.

Trifle

They trifle, and they beat the air about nothing which toucheth us.

Turn

The turns and varieties of all passions.

Under

Medicines take effect sometimes under, and sometimes above, the natural proportion of their virtue.

Uniform

The only doubt is . . . how far churches are bound to be uniform in their ceremonies.

Upward

Looking inward, we are stricken dumb; looking upward, we speak and prevail.

Urgent

Some urgent cause to ordain the contrary.

Usual

Consultation with oracles was a thing very usual and frequent in their times.

Uttermost

He cannot have sufficient honor done unto him; but the uttermost we can do, we must.

Voluntary

God did not work as a necessary, but a voluntary, agent, intending beforehand, and decreeing with himself, that which did outwardly proceed from him.

Wary

It behoveth our words to be wary and few.

Weak

A case so weak . . . hath much persisted in.

Weigh

Regard not who it is which speaketh, but weigh only what is spoken.

Will

Appetite is the will's solicitor, and the will is appetite's controller; what we covet according to the one, by the other we often reject.

Withdraw

Impossible it is that God should withdraw his presence from anything.

Worldly

Many years it hath continued, standing by no other worldly mean but that one only hand which erected it.

Worthiness

The prayers which our Savior made were for his own worthiness accepted.

Writhe

The reason which he yieldeth showeth the least part of his meaning to be that whereunto his words are writhed.