The Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity, Book V Quotes

“We all make complaint of the iniquity of our times: not unjustly; for the days are evil. But compare them with those times wherein there were no civil societies, . . . and we have surely good cause to think that Goth hath blessed up exceedingly, and hath made us behold most happy days.”
― Richard Hooker, Of the Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity, the Fifth Book;

“We all make complaint of the iniquity of our times: not unjustly; for the days are evil. But compare them with those times wherein there were no civil societies . . . and we have surely good cause to think that Goth hath blessed up exceedingly, and hath made us behold most happy days.”
― Richard Hooker, Of the Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity, the Fifth Book