The Works of Richard Hooker, vol. 1
Volume 1 of the writings of Richard Hooker, including the editor’s introduction and the first 4 Books of his best known work Of the Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity (1594-97).
The Works of that Learned and Judicious Divine Mr. Richard Hooker with an Account of His Life and Death by Isaac Walton. Arranged by the Rev. John Keble MA. 7th edition revised by the Very Rev. R.W. Church and the Rev. F. Paget (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1888). 3 vols. Vol. 1.
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- Introduction: Izaak Walton
- Editor: John Keble
- Author: Richard Hooker
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Table of Contents
- NOTE TO THE SIXTH EDITION.
- NOTE TO THE SEVENTH EDITION.
- GENERAL CONTENTS.
- ADDITIONS AND CORRECTIONS TO THE SEVENTH EDITION.
- EDITOR’S PREFACE.
- Lambeth Art. 5.
- Hooker.
- APPENDIX TO PREFACE.—No. II. Collation of the first edition of G. Cranmer’s Letter on the New Church Discipline with Walton’s edition, 1675. See in this edition, vol. ii. p. 598—609.Editor’s Preface, Appendix 2.
- APPENDIX TO PREFACE.—No. III. Editor’s Preface, Appendix 3.Memoranda for an Answer to the “Christian Letter,” omitted in the notes to this Edition1.
- TO THE RIGHT HON. AND RIGHT REV. FATHER IN GOD, GEORGE1, LORD BISHOP OF WINCHESTER, DEAN OF HIS MAJESTY’S CHAPEL ROYAL, AND PRELATE OF THE MOST NOBLE ORDER OF THE GARTER.
- PREFACE TO THE FIRST EDITION OF THE LIFE OF HOOKER, PUBLISHED IN 1665.
- TO THE READER.
- THE LIFE OF MR. RICHARD HOOKER.
- THE INTRODUCTION.
- THE LIFE.
- To Sir Francis Knolles1.
- A short Note of sundry unsound Points of Doctrine at divers times delivered by Mr. Hooker in his public Sermons.
- Here follows an Account, given in by Mr. Hooker himself, of what he preached, March 28, 15851. And then of what Travers in his Lectures excepted thereunto. And lastly, of Hooker’s Reply and Vindication of himself and his Sermons.
- AN APPENDIX TO THE LIFE OF MR. RICHARD HOOKER.
- FURTHER APPENDIX TO THE LIFE OF MR. RICHARD HOOKER.
- The Copy of a Letter writ to Mr. Izaak Walton, by Dr. King, Lord Bishop of Chichester1.
- To the worshipfull my verie loving frend Mr. D. Rainoldes at Queenes college1 in Oxford.
- To the worshipfull my verie good frend Mr. D. Rainoldes at Queenes college in Oxford.
- A List, in order of time, of Letters preserved by Mr. Fulman, MSS. t. ix. relating to the disputes in C. C. C. which led to Hooker’s temporary expulsion, ad 1580.
- 1Mr. Richard Hooker to the Lord Treasurer, when he sent him the written copy of his Ecclesiastical Polity.
- OF THE LAWS OF ECCLESIASTICAL POLITY, EIGHT BOOKS.
- TO THE READER1.
- A PREFACE TO THEM THAT SEEK (AS THEY TERM IT) THE REFORMATION OF LAWS1, AND ORDERS ECCLESIASTICAL, IN THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND.
- What Things are handled in the Books following:
- OF THE LAWS OF ECCLESIASTICAL POLITY.1
- THE FIRST BOOK. CONCERNING LAWS AND THEIR SEVERAL KINDS IN GENERAL.
- THE SECOND BOOK. CONCERNING THEIR FIRST POSITION WHO URGE REFORMATION IN THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND: NAMELY, THAT SCRIPTURE IS THE ONLY RULE OF ALL THINGS WHICH IN THIS LIFE MAY BE DONE BY MEN.
- THE THIRD BOOK. CONCERNING THEIR SECOND ASSERTION, THAT IN SCRIPTURE THERE MUST BE OF NECESSITY CONTAINED A FORM OF CHURCH POLITY, THE LAWS WHEREOF MAY IN NOWISE BE ALTERED.
- THE FOURTH BOOK. CONCERNING THEIR THIRD ASSERTION, THAT OUR FORM OF CHURCH POLITY IS CORRUPTED WITH POPISH ORDERS, RITES, AND CEREMONIES, BANISHED OUT OF CERTAIN REFORMED CHURCHES, WHOSE EXAMPLE THEREIN WE OUGHT TO HAVE FOLLOWED.
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