labour of a Christian should be to know, of a minister to preach Christ crucified in regard whereof not only worldly things, but even things otherwise precious, even the discipline itself is vile and base. Whereas now, by the heat of contention, and violence of affection, the zeal of men towards the one hath greatly decayed their love to the other. Hereunto, therefore, they are to be exhorted, to preach Christ crucified, the mortification of the flesh, the renewing of the spirit; not those things which in time of strife seem precious, but, passions being allayed, are vain and childish.

This EPITAPH was long since presented to the world in memory of Mr. HOOKER, by SIR WILLIAM COWPER; who also built him a fair Monument in Borne Church, and acknowledges him to have been his spiritual father.

THOUGH nothing can be spoke worthy his fame,
Or the remembrance of that precious name,
Judicious HOOKER; though this cost be spent
On him that hath a lasting monument

In his own books; yet ought we to express,
If not his worth, yet our respectfulness.
Church-ceremonies he maintained: then why,
Without all ceremony, should he die?
Was it because his life and death should be
Both equal patterns of humility?

Or that perhaps this only glorious one
Was above all, to ask, why had be none?
Yet he that lay so long obscurely low

Doth now preferred to greater honours go.
Ambitious men, learn hence to be more wise:
Humility is the true way to rise:

And God in me this lesson did inspire,

To bid this humble man-" Friend, sit up higher."

W. C.

APPENDIX.

THE WORKS OF MR. RICHARD HOOKER.

THE Works of Mr. Hooker, exclusive of the Books of Ecclesiastical Polity, the different editions of which are enumerated in a subsequent page, are,

I. “ ANSWER to the SUPPLICATION that Mr. TRAVERS made to the COUNCIL. Oươn. 1612."

4to.

11. A learned DISCOURSE of JUSTIFICATION, WORKS, and how the FOUNDATION of FAITH is overthrown on Habak. 1. 4. Oxon. 1612." 4to.

III. “A learned SERMON of the NATURE of PRIDE: on Habak, u. 4. Oron. 1612." 4to.

IV. A REMEDY against SORROW and FEAR, delivered in a FUNERAL SERMON: on John xiv. 27. Oron. 1612." 4to.

V. "A learned and comfortable SERMON of the CERTAINTY and PERPETUITY of FAITH in the ELECT: especially of the PROPHET HABAKKUK's FAITH: on Hubak, 1.4. Oxon. 1612." 4to.

VI. TWO SERMONS upon part of St. JUDE'S EPISTLES. Epist. Jude, ver. 17, 18, 19, 20, 21. Oron. 1613." 4to.

These Sermons were originally published by Mr. Henry Jackson, with "Wickliff's Wicket," and afterward reprinted without that tract. What reception they met with from the public we learn from one of his letters preserved in Fulman's papers in the library of Corpus Christi Collge, Oxford. "Edidi ante paucos dies trac"tatus quosdam D. Richardi Hooker, qui omnium

Applausu, excipio Puritanos ut vocant, ita excepu "sunt, ut necesse jam sit typographo nostro novam "Editionem parare, quæ primâ illà emendatior meà curà, "deo volente, prostitura est. Cùm itaque prodierit, expecta bina exemplaria unà cùm Wiclefi Tractatu, quem "edidi eodem Tempore."

VIII. In 1641, a volume was published under the fol lowing title: "A SUMMARIE VIEW of the GOVERNMENT both of the OLD and NEW TESTAMENT; whereby the EPISCOPAL GOVERNMENT of CHRIST'S CHURCH 1s vindicated," out of the rude draughts of Launcelot Andrews, late Bishop of Winchester.

To this volume is prefixed, as a preamble to the whɔle, “A DISCOVERY of the CAUSES of these CONTENTIONS touching CHURCH GOVERNMENT, out of the FRAGMENTS of RICHARD HOOKER."

This volume contains certain brief treatises, written by divers learned men, concerning the ancient and modern Government of the Church. The treatises are seven in number, of which this posthumous work of Mr. Hooker is one, and as it stands before the rest it is therefore called a Preamble to the whole.