...represented by the Church. There is not any man', declared Hooker in his Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity, 'of the Church of England but the same man is also...man a member of the commonwealth which is not also of the Church of England.'4 The Church of England really could be described, until the beginnings of...

...all'. He still found it possible to insist, even in the face of the evidence of his own time, that 'there is not any man of the Church of England but...man is also a member of the commonwealth, nor any member of the commonwealth which is not also of the Church of England' - yet even Hooker could not...

...community appears in Book 8 of Richard Hooker's Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity (1593): We hold that . . . there is not any man of the Church of England, but...man a member of the Commonwealth which is not also of the Church of England, yet as in a figure triangular the base doth differ from the sides thereof,...

...Richard Hooker offered the best explanation of this early-modern prescription: We hold that seeing there is not any man of the Church of England, but...man a member of the Commonwealth which is not also of the Church of England, therefore as in a figure triangular the base doth differ from the sides thereof,...

...distinguished from other societies by the exercise of the Christian religion. . . . We hold, that seeing there is not any man of the Church of England but...man a member of the commonwealth, which is not also of the Church of England; therefore as in a figure triangular the base doth differ from the sides thereof,...

...State are two aspects of one undivided society or commonwealth (see for the wider context Avis, 2.001). 'There is not any man of the Church of England but...man a member of the commonwealth which is not also of the Church of England' (EP, VIII, i, i: 3, p. 330). The Church is that politic society that maintains...

...political and religious ends of human existence are harmonised. 46 The celebrated claim is hence made that 'there is not any man of the Church of England, but...man a member of the Commonwealth which is not also of the Church of England.' 47 The presence of Jews and recusant Catholics in England rendered this...

...been that of the Elizabethan theologian Richard Hooker (1554-1600), who put it in a famous sentence: "There is not any man of the Church of England but...man a member of the commonwealth which is not also of the Church of England."4 That statement no longer reflected legal fact. We might identify the new...

...emphasised that the church was coterminous with society as a whole, rather than a gathering of the saved: There is not any man of the Church of England but...man a member of the commonwealth which is not also of the Church of England.3 The Puritans might develop aspects of Calvin's system in ways unacceptable...

...grounded on its Apostolicity, it could follow that church and state were the same: 'We hold that seeing there is not any man of the Church of England but...the same man is also a member of the Common-wealth; not any, member of the Common-wealth, which is not also of the Church of England', whether one called...