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"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."

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VOL. II.

OXFORD,

AT THE UNIVERSITY PRESS.

MDCCCXLI.

Clar. Press.

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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 approbation, I nothing fear but that your

1 [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.

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"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 Imore 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.)

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hymself. I reserve it in my hands
"untill I know sume trustye mes-
singer. No man shall see it, God
willinge, thus I commend you to
"God, who kepe you in helth to his
plesure. London the 4th of De-
"cember, 1584. Yo'rs to his power
GEOR. BYSSHOP.
"Mr. Hoker wolde neds have it
goe unto my L. of Cant. other-
wyse I was in mynde for to doe it
"first, which I wolde I had done,
"that the world might have judged
"of it, there wold have bin no
"falte funde then, yf it had bin
"extant. Yf it be your pleasure,
"I will dele with Mr. Mills, that he
I may dele further with my L. of
"Canterb."

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The writer of this letter was a noted bookseller, and is mentioned by Strype as Warden of the Sta

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