The works of Mr. Richard Hooker (that learned and judicious divine), in eight books of ecclesiastical polity compleated out of his own manuscripts, never before published : with an account of his life and death ...

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The works of Mr. Richard Hooker (that learned and judicious divine), in eight books of ecclesiastical polity compleated out of his own manuscripts, never before published : with an account of his life and death ...

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Hooker, Richard, 1553 or 4-1600.

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London :: Printed by Thomas Newcomb for Andrew Crook ...,

1666.

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Subject terms

Hooker, Richard, 1553 or 4-1600.

Church of England -- Apologetic works.

Ecclesiastical law -- Early works to 1800.

Church polity -- Early works to 1800.

Sermons, English -- 17th century.

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Contents

• frontispiece
• engraved title page
• title page
• To the KINGS most Excellent MAJESTY CHARLES IId, By the Grace of God, King of Great Britain, France, and Ireland, Defender of the Faith, &c.
• TO THE READER.
• The Copy of a Letter writ to Mr. Walton, by Dr. King, Lord Bishop of Chichester.
• THE LIFE OF Mr. Richard Hooker.
  • THE INTRODUCTION.
  • THE LIFE
• AN APPENDIX To the LIFE of Mr. Richard Hooker.
• GEORGE CRANMERS LETTER UNTO Mr. RICHARD HOOKER. February 1598.
• epitaph
• TO THE Most Reverend Father in GOD, my very good Lord, the Lord Archbishop of CANTERBURY his Grace, Primate and Metropolitan of all ENGLAND.
• A PREFACE To them that seek (as they term it) The Reformation of Laws and Orders Ecclesiastical, IN THE Church of England.
• WHAT THINGS ARE HANDLED In the following BOOKS.
• OF THE LAWS OF Ecclesiastical Polity.
• OF THE LAWS OF Ecclesiastical Polity.
• OF THE LAWS OF Ecclesiastical Polity.
• OF THE LAWS OF Ecclesiastical Polity.
• OF THE LAWS OF Ecclesiastical Polity.
• OF THE LAWS OF Ecclesiastical Polity.
  • The Nature of Spiritual Iurisdiction.
  • Of Penitency, the chiefest End propounded by Spiritual Iurisdiction. Two kinds of Penitency, the one a Private Duty toward God, the other a Duty of ex∣ternal Discipline. Of the vertue of Repentance from which the former Duty proceedeth: and of Contrition the first part of that Duty.
  • Of the Discipline of Repentance instituted by Christ, practised by the Fathers, con∣verted by the School-men into a Sacrament; and of Confession, that which be∣longeth to the vertue of Repentance, that which was used among the Iews, that which the Papacy imagineth a Sacrament, and that which Antient Discipline practised.
  • Of Satisfaction.
  • Of Absolution of Penitents.
• OF THE LAWS OF Ecclesiastical Polity.
• OF THE LAWS OF Ecclesiastical Polity.
  • What the Power of Dominion is.
  • In what Measure.
  • Of the Title of Headship.
  • To call and dissolve all solemn Assemblies about the Publick Affairs of the Church.
  • Of the Authority of making Laws.
• TO THE READER.
• The CONTENTS of the TREATISES following.
• A SVPPLICATION Made to the COUNCEL BY Master Walter Travers.
• Mr. HOOKER'S ANSVVER TO THE SUPPLICATION THAT Mr. TRAVERS Made to the COUNCIL. To my Lord of Canterburie his Grace.
• To The Christian Reader.
• A LEARNED DISCOURSE OF Justification, Works, and how the Foundation of FAITH is overthrown.
• A LEARNED SERMON OF THE NATURE OF PRIDE.
• A REMEDY AGAINST Sorrow and Fear, DELIVERED IN A FUNERAL SERMON.
• A Learned and Comfortable SERMON. Of the certainty and perpetuity of FAITH in the ELECT: Especially of the Prophet Habakkuk's FAITH.
• To the Worshipful Mr. GEORGE SUMMASTER, Principal of Broad-Gates Hall in Oxford, Henry Iackson wisheth all Happiness.
• TWO SERMONS Upon Part of Saint Judes Epistle.
  • The First Sermon.
  • THE SECOND SERMON.