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Sir Henry Hobart, 1st Baronet Quotes (1560-1625)
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About Sir Henry Hobart, 1st Baronet
Sir Henry Hobart, 1st Baronet SL (c. 1560 – 29 December 1625), of Blickling Hall, was an English politician who succeeded Sir Edward Coke to become Chief Justice of the Court of Common Pleas.
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“Nothing is more natural than to marry.”
“Zeal and indignation are fervent passions.”
“Men will not commonly steal women that are nothing worth.”
“The laws of the realm do admit nothing against the law of God.”
“Aucupia verborum sunt judice indigna: Catching at words is unworthy of a Judge.”
“The statute is like a tyrant; where he comes he makes all void; but the common law is like a nursing father, makes only void that part where the fault is, and preserves the rest.”
“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.”
“I commend the Judge that seems fine and ingenious, so it tend to right and equity. And I condemn them, that either out of pleasure to shew a subtil wit will destroy, or out of incuriousness or negligence will not labour to support the act of the party by the art or act of the law.”
“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.”
“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.”
“I do exceedingly commend the Judges that are curious and almost subtil, Astuti (which is the word used in the Proverbs of Solomon in a good sense, when it is to a good end) to invent reasons and means to make Acts, according to the just intent of the parties, and to avoid wrong and injury which by rigid rules might be wrought out of the Act.”
“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.”
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Sir Henry Hobart, 1st Baronet on Divine law 3 quotes
“The laws of the realm do admit nothing against the law of God.”
Sir Henry Hobart, 1st Baronet on Judges 2 quotes
“Aucupia verborum sunt judice indigna: Catching at words is unworthy of a Judge.”
Sir Henry Hobart, 1st Baronet on Clergy 2 quotes
“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 on Statutes 2 quotes
“The statute is like a tyrant; where he comes he makes all void; but the common law is like a nursing father, makes only void that part where the fault is, and preserves the rest.”
Sir Henry Hobart, 1st Baronet on Marriage
“Nothing is more natural than to marry.”
Sir Henry Hobart, 1st Baronet on Zeal
“Zeal and indignation are fervent passions.”
Sir Henry Hobart, 1st Baronet on Truth
Sir Henry Hobart, 1st Baronet on Law
Sir Henry Hobart, 1st Baronet on Religion
Sir Henry Hobart, 1st Baronet on Poverty
“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 on Monarchy
“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.”
About Sir Henry Hobart, 1st Baronet
Sir Henry Hobart, 1st Baronet SL (c. 1560 – 29 December 1625), of Blickling Hall, was an English politician who succeeded Sir Edward Coke to become Chief Justice of the Court of Common Pleas.