The Works of that Learned and Judicious Divine, Mr. Richard Hooker, vol. 2
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Overview
The second volume includes Hooker’s thoughts and expositions on church life. He includes practical topics such as duties of ministers, appropriate attire, length, prayers, communion, baptism, and marriage ceremonies. Hooker goes into careful detail on each of these subjects and more, providing valuable insight on daily life for laity and for ministers alike.
- Includes Hooker’s most famous works
- Emphasis on tolerance and compassion within the Church
- Contains indexes, appendixes, and an introduction of the life of Hooker
- Of Preaching by Reading Publicly of Holy Writ
- Prayer Considered as a Duty to God
- The Father’s Testimony to Ministerial Attire
- Length of Service Reverential, Edifying, Necessary
- Litanies
- Prayer for Deliverance
- Communion of Saints
- Ground in Scripture for Omnipresence
- Of Interrogatories in Baptism
- Of the Cross in Baptism
- Of Confirmation after Baptism
- Of Festival Days
The Celebration of Matrimony
Top Highlights
“The Church is in Christ as Eve was in Adam. Yea by grace we are every of us in Christ and in his Church, as by nature we are in those our first parents. God made Eve of the rib of Adam. And his Church he frameth out of the very flesh, the very wounded and bleeding side of the Son of man.” (Page 250)
“The grace which we have by the holy Eucharist doth not begin but continue life. No man therefore receiveth this sacrament before Baptism, because no dead thing is capable of nourishment.” (Page 348)
“If they, which employ their labour and travel about the public administration of justice, follow it only as a trade, with unquenchable and unconscionable thirst of gain, being not in heart persuaded that5 justice is God’s own work, and themselves his agents in this business, the sentence of right God’s own verdict, and themselves his priests to deliver it; formalities of justice do but serve to smother right, and that, which was necessarily ordained for the common good, is through shameful abuse made the cause of common misery.” (Page 14)
“I hold it for a most infallible rule in expositions of sacred Scripture, that where a literal construction will stand, the farthest from the letter is commonly the worst. There is nothing more dangerous than this licentious and deluding art, which changeth the meaning of words, as alchymy doth or would do the substance of metals, making of any thing what it listeth, and bringeth in the end all truth to nothing.” (Page 263)
“The use of Sacraments is but only in this life, yet so that here they concern a far better life than this, and are for that cause accompanied with ‘grace which worketh Salvation.’ Sacraments are the powerful instruments of God to eternal life. For as our natural life consisteth in the union of the body with the soul; so our life supernatural in the union of the soul with God.” (Page 220)
- Title: The Works of that Learned and Judicious Divine, Mr. Richard Hooker, vol. 2
- Author: Richard Hooker
- Editor: John Keble
- Edition: 6th
- Publisher: Oxford
- Publication Date: 1874
- Pages: 614
Richard Hooker (1554–1600) was born in England. He was an Anglican theologian and priest known for promoting reason and tradition. Hooker wrote extensively on the relationship between Church and State, as well as well interpretation, salvation, and morality. Considered one of the greatest influences on Anglicanism, Hooker was a proponent of Thomas Aquinas. He was acclaimed by Elizabeth I and James I.