Reformed Covenanter
Cancelled Commissioner
... The second book of [Richard] Hooker’s Ecclesiastical Polity is entirely directed against this erroneous and exaggerated view of the Presbyterian principle; and though Thomas Cartwright, against whom chiefly the Ecclesiastical Polity was written, and who is there usually designated as “T. C.,” may have laid himself open to Hooker’s attack by some rash and unqualified statements upon this point, yet I am persuaded that, upon the whole, Hooker did not represent with perfect fairness the sentiments of his opponents upon this subject; and at any rate it is manifest that the great general principle, with the limitation and modification contained in the clause of the [Westminster] Confession we are at present considering, and introduced no doubt for this very purpose, escapes entirely from the range of Hooker’s argument. ...
For more, see William Cunningham on the error of hyper-regulativism in relation to Richard Hooker and Thomas Cartwright.
For more, see William Cunningham on the error of hyper-regulativism in relation to Richard Hooker and Thomas Cartwright.