THE WORKS

OF

MR. RICHARD HOOKER.

"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 keretike 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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THE WORKS

OF

THAT LEARNED AND JUDICIOUS DIVINE,

MR. RICHARD HOOKER:

WITH AN ACCOUNT OF HIS LIFE AND DEATH

BY ISAAC WALTON.

IN TWO VOLUMES.

VOL. L

OXFORD:

AT THE CLARENDON PRESS.

M.DCCC.XC.

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GENERAL CONTENTS.

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1890

VOL. L

Advertisement.

Walton's Dedication to Bishop Morley

Preface to the First Edition of the Life of Hooker

Preface to the Books of the Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity

Of the Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity, The First Book

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

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275

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347

VOL. II.

Of the Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity, The Fifth Book continued

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