THE

W O R K S

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,

PROFESSOR OF POETRY.

SECOND EDITION.

“ All things written in this booke 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 heretike by the help of Almighty God I will
never be.”-HOOKER, MS. Note on the title leaf of the “ Christian Letter."

VOL. I.

OXFORD

AT THE UNIVERSITY PRESS.

MDCCCXLI.

Page

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CXV

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100

Editor's Preface ..

Walton's Dedication to Bishop Morley

Preface to the First Edition of the Life of Hooker

Life of Hooker ...

Appendix to the Life of Hooker

Further Appendix, &c. ..

Spenser's Preface to the Reader

Preface to the Books of the Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity

Of the Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity, The First Book ...

The Second Book..

The Third Book

The Fourth Book

I 21

I 25

197

286

337

416

VOL. IJ.

Of the Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity, The Fifth Book......
Hooker's Dedication to Archbishop Whitgift
Appendix to Book V.

ibid.

537

VOL. III.

Of the Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity, The Sixth Book..

Appendix to Book VI. ........

Of the Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity, The Seventh Book......

Of the Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity, The Eighth Book

Appendix to Book VIII.

Sermon I....

Sermon II.

Travers's Supplication to the Council

Hooker's Answer to Travers’s Supplication..

Sermon III.

Sermon IV.

Jackson's Dedication..

Sermon V.

Sermon VI.

Sermon VII..

Index .