THE WORKS OF MR. RICHARD HOOKER. "All things written in this becke I humbly and meekly submit to the censure of the grave and reverend Prelates within this land, to the judgment of learned men, and the sober consideration of all others. Wherein I may happely erre as others before me have done, but an keretike by the help of Almighty God I will never be."-HOOKER, MS. Note on the title leaf of the "Christian Letter." 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, M. A. LATE FELLOW OF ORIEL COLLEGE, OXFORD. SIXTH EDITION. VOL. II. OXFORD: AT THE CLARENDON PRESS. M.DCCC.LXXIV. Reasons for addressing Archbishop Whitgift. TO THE MOST REVEREND FATHER IN GOD, MY VERY GOOD LORD, THE LORD ARCHBISHOP OF CANTERBURY HIS GRACE, PRIMATE AND METROPOLITAN OF ALL ENGLAND. MOST REVEREND IN CHRIST, Dedication. THE long-continued and more than ordinary favour1 which BOOK V. hitherto your Grace hath been pleased to shew towards me may justly claim at my hands some thankful acknowledgment thereof. In which consideration, as also for that I embrace willingly the ancient received course and conveniency of that discipline, which teacheth inferior degrees and orders in the Church of God to submit their writings to the same authority, from which their allowable dealings whatsoever in such affairs must receive approbation2, I nothing fear but that your [See the life of Hooker, p. 53.] 2 The following letter, preserved by Fulman, ix. 214. furnishes an instance of this kind of deference, on the part of Hooker, towards Ecclesiastical Authorities. "To my lovinge freind Mr. Reynolds of Corpus Christi Col"lege in Oxford. Salut. in Chro. "Your copie was delyver into my "L. of Cant. owne hands the daye "after I receyved it of you. Sence "that tyme it was demanded twyse " at his hands, and deferred, upon "more view, the third tyme I went "myself and spake unto his G. his "answer was that he could not alow "it, because of some glawnsinge at "matters in this tyme (those were "the very speeches his G. used.) "I requested the copie agayne, and "it was delyvered me presentlye by HOOKER, VOL. II. !* |