"Words must be taken according to the matter whereof they are uttered."
— Richard Hooker

January 1, 1970

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Of the Lawes of Ecclesiastical Politie (1597), Book IV. Ch. xi. 7, quoted in The Works of That Learned and Judicious Divine, Mr. Richard Hooker: With An Account of His Life and Death. by Issac Walton. Vol. I, ed. John Keble (1845 ed.), p. 457