"Firft, as there could be in natural "bodies no motion of any thing, unless "there were fome firft which moved all

things, and continued unmoveable ; "even fo in politic focieties there must "be fome unpunifhable, or else no man "fhall fuffer punishment: for fith pu"nishments proceed always from fupe"riors, to whom the administration of "justice belongeth; which administration "muft have neceffarily a fountain, that "deriveth it to all others, and receiveth "not from any, because otherwise the "courfe of juftice fhould go infinitely in 66 a circle, every fuperior having his fupe"rior without end, which cannot be : "therefore a well-fpring, it followeth, "there is, a fupreme head of justice, "whereunto all are fubject, but itself in "fubjection to none. Which kind of pre66 eminency if fome ought to have in a "kingdom, who but the King shall have "it? Kings therefore, or no man, can "have lawful power to judge.

"If private men offend, there is the "magiftrate over them, which judgeth;

"if magistrates, they have their prince; "if princes, there is Heaven, a tribunal, "before which they fhall appear; on "earth they are not accountable to any." Here, fays the Dr. it breaks off abruptly.

And I have thefe words alfo attefted under the hand of Mr. Fabian Philips, a man of note for his useful books. "will make oath, if I fhall be required,

"I

that Dr. Sanderfon, the late Bishop of "Lincoln, did a little before his death "affirm to me, he had feen a manuscript "affirmed to him to be the hand-writing "of Mr. Richard Hooker, in which there was no mention made of the King or "fupreme governor's being accountable "to the people. This I will make oath, "that that good man attested to me."

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FABIAN PHILIPS.

So that there appears to be both omiffions and additions in the faid laft three printed books; and this may probably be one reason why Dr. Sanderson, the said learned Bishop, (whose writings are fo highly and juftly valued,) gave a strict

charge

charge near the time of his death, or in his last will," That nothing of his that "was not already printed, should be "printed after his death."

It is well known how high a value our learned King James put upon the books writ by Mr. Hooker; and known also that our late King Charles (the martyr for the Church) valued them the fecond of all books, teftified by his commending them to the reading of his fon Charles, that now is our gracious King: and you may fuppofe that this Charles the First was not a stranger to the pretended three books; because, in a discourse with the Lord Say, in the time of the Long Parliament, when the faid Lord required the King to grant the truth of his argument, because it was the judgment of Mr. Hooker, (quoting him in one of the three written books,) the King replied, "They were not al"lowed to be Mr. Hooker's books: but, "however, he would allow them to be "Mr. Hooker's, and confent to what his "Lordship proposed to prove out of those "doubtful books, if he would but confent

"to

"to the judgment of Mr. Hooker in the "other five, that were the undoubted "books of Mr. Hooker."

In this relation concerning these three doubtful books of Mr. Hooker's, my purpose was to enquire, then set down what I obferved and know; which I have done, not as an engaged perfon, but indifferently; and now leave my reader to give sentence, for their legitimation, as to himfelf; but fo as to leave others the fame liberty of believing, or disbelieving them to be Mr. Hooker's: and it is obfervable, that as Mr. Hooker advised with Dr. Spencer, in the defign and manage of thefe books; fo alfo, and chiefly, with his dear pupil, George Cranmer, (whofe fifter was the wife of Dr. Spencer,) of which this following letter may be a teftimony, and doth alfo give authority to fome things mentioned both in this Appendix, and in the Life of Mr. Hooker, and is therefore added.

J. W.

GEORGE CRANMER'S LETTER

UNTO

MR. RICHARD HOOKER.

FEB. 1598.

WHAT pofterity is likely to judge of

these matters concerning Church-difcipline, we may the better conjecture, if we call to mind what our own age, within few years, upon better experience, hath already judged concerning the fame. It may be remembered, that at first the greatest part of the learned in the land were either eagerly affected, or favourably inclined that way. The books then written for the most part favoured of the disciplinary ftyle; it founded every where in pulpits, and in common phrase of men's speech. The contrary part began to fear they had, taken a wrong courfe; many which impugned the difcipline, yet so impugned