Sir Henry Hobart, 1st Baronet: Quotes about God

Sir Henry Hobart, 1st Baronet was English politician. Explore interesting quotes on god.
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“We know well that the Primitive Church in her greatest purity were but voluntary congregations of believers, submitting themselves to the Apostles, and after to other Pastors, to whom they did minister of their Temporals, as God did move them. So as Ecclesiasticus, cap. 17, says, God appointed a Ruler over every people, when he divided nations of the whole Earth. And therefore if a people will refuse all government, it were against the law of God; and yet if a popular State will receive a Monarchy it stands well with the Law of God.”

Sir Henry Hobart, 1st Baronet

Bruton v. Morris (1614), Lord Hobart's Rep. 149.

“God's service in this name is the service of God's house, and therefore they are convertible. And who sees not, that whosoever ministers to the poor, ministers to God? As it appears in that solemn sentence of the last day, inasmuch as you did feed, clothe, lodge the poor, you did it unto me.”

Sir Henry Hobart, 1st Baronet

Pits v. James (1614), Lord Hobart's Rep. 124-125

“Who sees not, that whosoever ministers to the poor, ministers to God? as it appears in that solemn sentence of the last day, Inasmuch as you did feed, clothe, lodge the poor, you did it unto me.”

Sir Henry Hobart, 1st Baronet

Pits v. James (1614), Lord Hobart's Rep. 124-125

“Minister doth not always import an inferior to him to whom he doth minister: for the Psalm saith, God hath made man paulo inferiorem Angelis; and yet in the first chapter to the Hebrews it is said, that the Angels are ministering spirits, sent forth for the good of God's saints.”

Sir Henry Hobart, 1st Baronet

Pits v. James (1614), Lord Hobart's Rep. 124-125

“The laws of the realm do admit nothing against the law of God.”

Sir Henry Hobart, 1st Baronet

Colt v. Glover (1614), Lord Hobart's Rep. 149.

“A woman cannot be a pastor by the law of God. I say more, it is against the law of the realm.”

Sir Henry Hobart, 1st Baronet

Colt and another v. Bishop of Coventry and Lichfield (1612), Hob. Rep. 148.

“Though all good men be called God's servants in their general vocation, yet they cannot be called the minister of God but to a more special use.”

Sir Henry Hobart, 1st Baronet

Pits v. James (1614), Lord Hobart's Rep. 124-125