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Richard Field
1561–1616
Richard Field. Dean of Gloucester. Of the Church (1606/1628) is the most substantial Reformed-conformist ecclesiology of the early Jacobean church — a five-book defense of the Church of England as a true visible church against both Roman and Separatist accounts. Friend of Hooker and the King's chaplain.
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Of the Church consisting of men and Angels, in the day of their Creation. WHatsoeuer commeth within the compasse of mans conceit and apprehension, is either the vniversall perfection of being it selfe, wherein there is nothing intermingled of not being, nothing of possibilitie to bee that which already it is not, which is the nature of God, whose name is [Exod. 3. 14. and 6. 3.] Iehoua, [Reve. 1. 8.] Which is, which was, and is to come: or else it is finite limited and restrained to a certaine degree, measure; and kind of being, which is the condition of all things vnder God. So that as wee cannot thinke aright of God, but with resolued and vndoubted assurance that he is, (For what can be, if being it selfe be not?) that he is infinite, and hath noe limitation of his perfections, (for within what bounds or limits…
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