 The general and perpetual voice of men is as the sentence of God himself. For that which all men have at all times learned, Nature herself must needs have taught; and God being the author of Nature, her voice is but his instrument.  The Rise of English Literary Prose - Page 136by George Philip Krapp - 1915 - 551 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Norman Kretzmann, Anthony Kenny, Jan Pinborg - 1982 - 1060 pages
...external order of nature? Hooker, for all his qualifications, still felt confident enough to assert '. . . God being the author of Nature, her voice is but his instrument. By her from Him we receive whatsoever in such sort we learn.' 51 The new scholasticism as represented... | |
 | David Little - 1984 - 288 pages
...token of evident goodness [of laws] is, if the general persuasion of all men do so account it. ... The general and perpetual voice of men is as the sentence...author of Nature, her voice is but his instrument. By her from him we receive whatsoever in such sort we learn.129 Vox populi is vox dei (as well as the... | |
 | Martin Ignatius Joseph Griffin - 1992 - 242 pages
...from Cicero gave it valuable prestige for sixteenth-century apologists like Richard Hooker, who wrote, "The general and perpetual voice of men is as the...God being the author of Nature, her voice is but his instrument."15 Though it came under attack in the seventeenth century, it was still regarded as an... | |
 | Richard Helgerson - 1992 - 390 pages
...existence on the consent of its members. In that consent Hooker hoped always to hear an echo of God. "The general and perpetual voice of men is as the sentence of God himself" (1.83-84). But, as he knew, most human laws are neither general nor perpetual. They apply to single... | |
 | Ian Harris - 1998 - 460 pages
...account it'. He assumed that what was universal was natural and to be presumed to be God's work, so that 'the general and perpetual voice of men is as the sentence of God himself." Thus the question of whether God had acted legislatively was postponed to the general reception of... | |
 | Michael S. Northcott - 1996 - 404 pages
...are to find fulfilment and happiness arises from nature as well as from reason and revelation: Tor that which all men have at all times learned, Nature...God being the author of Nature, her voice is but his instrument.'"9 Like Aquinas, Hooker finds the highest good in the human knowledge and love of God and... | |
 | Ross Harrison - 2003 - 292 pages
...divine, if not quite a bishop like Ponet, Hooker here brings God into the explanation. He says that 'the general and perpetual voice of men is as the sentence of God himself. God has made natural law true for all people. Therefore what all people recognise as true can be taken... | |
 | Branko Gorjup - 2004 - 468 pages
...that Calvinists would utterly deny to them: "The general and perpetual voice of man," Hooker writes, "is as the sentence of God himself. For that which...God being the author of Nature, her voice is but his instrument."27 Noting that many "principal points" of Christian faith are nowhere mentioned in scripture,... | |
 | Michael Oakeshott - 2004 - 472 pages
...most certain token of evident goodness is, if the general persuasion of all men do so account it'.10 'The general and perpetual voice of men is as the sentence of God himself. These" laws, so perceived, 'do bind men absolutely even as they are men': they compose the universal... | |
 | Tod E. Jones - 2005 - 180 pages
...than a bond of communication between Creator and creation. Therefore, he can declare with assurance, "The general and perpetual voice of men is as the...God being the author of Nature, her voice is but his instrument."1 4 The Laws of Reason are evident and irresistible to a good man, such a one who has not... | |
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