“IT IS VERY TRUE that the new model- “ ling Ecclesiastical Government was the prin- “ cipal point debated in that famous dispute “ (which gave rise to the following work): but “ then the Puritans contended for that Re- “ formation on principles that equally con- “ eluded for a Reformation in the Civil like- “ wise: and this Mr. Hooker well understood, “ when he took so much pains to overthrow “ their fundamental maxim, the Head Theorem, “ as he calls it, of their scheme—-That the “ Scripture of God is in such sort the rule of “ human actions, that sinzply zuhatsoever we do, “ and are not by it directed thereunto, the same “ is sin. Now who sees not that this principle “ pursued, brings on, directly and necessarily, “ a Reformation of the Civil Government upon l“ Jewish ideas? the very error of the reformed “ Ministers of that time. This, as we say, was “ not hid from the penetration of this great

“ man—The reasons, (says he, in his Preface)