The Works of that Learned and Judicious Divine, Mr. Richard Hooker, in Eight Books of Ecclesiastical polity, Compleated out of his own Manuscrips; With several other Treatises by the same Author, and an Account of his Life and Death. Dedicated to the Kings most Excellent Majesty, Charles II. By whose Royal Father (near His Martyrdom) the former Five Books (then onely extant) were commended to His Dear Children, as an excellent means to satisfie Private Scruples, and settle the Publick Peace of this Church and Kingdom.

The Works of that Learned and Judicious Divine, Mr. Richard Hooker, in Eight Books of Ecclesiastical polity, Compleated out of his own Manuscripts; With several other Treatises by the same Author, and an Account of his Life and Death. Dedicated to the Kings most Excellent Majesty, Charles II. By whose Royal Father (near His Martyrdom) the former Five Books (then onely extant) were commended to His Dear Children, as an excellent means to satisfie Private Scruples, and settle the Publick Peace of this Church and Kingdom.

Author: Hooker, Richard

Folio.(8.75" x 13.75") 1676. Hooker, Richard. London: R. White. Newly rebound in quarter mottled brown leather with single gilt rule to leather edges, over marbled boards. Spine with six gilt bordered raised ribs, gilt author/title on fancy gilt rule bordered red leather to second compartment, gilt year at foot, single large ornate gilt device centered to all other compartments, single gilt rule at head and foot of spine. Dampstain to top gutter, affecting text, 3" closed tear to for-edge of pp 399/400. Small closed tears to page edges toward front of book, fore-edges of prelims soiled. Some manuscript marginalia, underlining, 35 lines of manuscript text to blank page (see pic), otherwise a fine book. Engraved frontispiece and half-title page, title page in red and black.

The additional Treatises comprise: I) A Supplication made to the Council by Master Walter Travers, II) Master Hooker's Answer to the Supplication that Master Travers made to the Council, III) A Learned Discourse of Justification, works, and how the foundation of Faith is overthrown, IV) A Learned Sermon of the Nature of Pride, V) A Remedy against Sorrow and Fear, delivered in a Funeral Sermon, VI) Of the Certainty and Perpetuity of Faith in the Elect: especially the Prophet Habakkuk's Faith, VII) Two Sermons upon part of St. Jude's Epistle.

From the Web: An early edition of the works of Richard Hooker, a noted English theologians of the sixteenth century. This work contains his highly provocative refutation of Puritanism. ESTC Citation No. R27417. Scarce. The third edition and first thus. First published by J. Best in 1662. Richard Hooker was an English priest in the Church of England, regarded as one of the most important English theologians of the sixteenth century. He is credited as offering a defense to the notion of redeemed reason, which informed throughout the seventeenth century a theological method based upon a combination of revelation, reason and tradition. This collection of Hooker's work, includes some of his most well-known writings, with much of it being taken up by his Magnum Opus 'Of The Lawes of Ecclesiastical Politie'. Ecclesiastical Politie has been categorized as perhaps the greatest work of philosophy and theology to be written in English. The final three sections of the work were published posthumously and there remains debate as to their full authorship. Nonetheless, the work offers a carefully phrased reply to the general principles of Puritanism. Book one of the work draws heavily upon the legal thought of Thomas Aquinas to distinguish seven different forms of law; based upon his Aristotelian belief that humans are naturally inclined to live in society. The work influenced not only Anglican thought, but also wider theology, political theory and English prose.

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