For men to be tied and led by authority, as it were with a kind of captivity of judgment, and though there be reason to the contrary not to listen unto it, but to follow like beasts the first in the herd, they know not, nor care not whither, this were brutish.


An abridgment of the Ecclesiastical Polity of... R. Hooker... adapted to the use of Families, by... M. Hemmings (ed. 1773)

Richard Hooker Quotes

For men to be tied and led by authority, as it were with a kind of captivity of judgment, and though there be reason to the contrary not to listen...

For men to be tied and led by authority, as it were with a kind of captivity of judgment, and though there be reason to the contrary not to listen...

For men to be tied and led by authority, as it were with a kind of captivity of judgment, and though there be reason to the contrary not to listen...

For men to be tied and led by authority, as it were with a kind of captivity of judgment, and though there be reason to the contrary not to listen...