 | Noah Porter - 1890 - 642 pages
...or that, there is no reason besides looker his own will." " The being of God is a kind of law to bia working; for that perfection which God is, giveth perfection to that he doeth. God is a law, both to himself and to other things besides " (Ei'des. Pol., book i. § 2). Stephen... | |
 | Charles Gore - 1891 - 334 pages
...teachers should have expected to discover law throughout all creation ; because, in Hooker's language, ' the being of God is a kind of law to His working,' and the being of God as Christians believe, is an eternal process according to necessary law. V. The... | |
 | Andrew Martin Fairbairn - 1893 - 590 pages
...has well said, putting into English the fundamental principle of the Reformed theology of his day, " The being of God is a kind of law to His working ;...perfection which God is giveth perfection to that He doth." * And the attempt to approach the doctrine of God through the Godhead means simply that what we wish... | |
 | 1894 - 584 pages
...to all divine and human laws. What Hooker says of God is valid in its application to the God-man: " The being of God is a kind of law to His working;...perfection which God is, giveth perfection to that He doeth." * In Christ the blessing of God to fallen mankind, and the obligation of responsive obedience... | |
 | 1895 - 748 pages
...according to law; all other things according to a law whereof some superior, unto whom they are subject, is author; only the works and operations of God have...Perfection which God is giveth perfection to that He doth. Those natural, necessary, and internal operations of God, the Generation of the Son, the Proceeding... | |
 | Theodore Thornton Munger - 1899 - 456 pages
...supernatural, particularly as seen in the nature of God, quoting with effect Hooker's saying that " the being of God is a kind of law to his working." Whatever becomes of nature and supernatural when brought under so unifying a force as law, the objection... | |
 | Theodore Thornton Munger - 1899 - 462 pages
...supernatural, particularly as seen in the nature of God, quoting with effect Hooker's saying that " the being of God is a kind of law to his working." Whatever becomes of nature and supernatural when brought under so unifying a force as law, the objection... | |
 | Edward John Hamilton - 1902 - 492 pages
...who think that of the will of God to do this or that, there is no reason besides his own will. . . . The being of God is a kind of law to his working;...perfection which God is, giveth perfection to that he doeth." (ECCLES. POL., Bk. I., section 2.) Stephen Charnock (Ow THE BEINO AND ATTRIBUTES OF GOD) says,... | |
 | Dorothea Beale - 1902 - 182 pages
...proclaimed I-aw through the worlds, and right misnamed." " The being of God is a law to His works, for that perfection which God is, giveth perfection to that He doth." — Hooker. There is a profound faith in the Being of the All-good, deeper than mere belief in His... | |
 | Theodore Thornton Munger - 1904 - 258 pages
...extension of nature he escaped necessity and found freedom as a son of God, and miracles became natural. " The being of God is a kind of law to his working," as he says, quoting the great Hooker. This book is usually regarded as the most thorough of his works.... | |
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... is author; only the works and operations of God have him both for their worker, and for the law whereby they are wrought. The being of God is a kind of law to his working; for that perfection which God is, giveth perfection to that he doth. 
