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Be
it in matter of the one kind or the other [doctrine or
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order],
what Scripture doth plainly deliver, to that first place
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both
of credit and obedience is due; the next whereunto is
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whatsoever
any man can necessarily conclude by force of
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reason; after these the voice of the Church succeedeth.
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That
which the Church by her ecclesiastical authority shall
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probably
think and define to be true or good, must in
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congruity
of reason over-rule all other inferior judgments
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whatsoever.
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Richard
Hooker, The Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity, V.8:2
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