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APPENDIX.

THE WORKS OF MR. RICHARD HOOKER.

THE Works of Mr. Hooker, exclufive of the Books of Ecclefiaftical 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. Oxon. 1612." 4to.

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

III. "A learned SERMON of the NATURE of PRIDE: on Habak.ii. 4. Oxon. 1612." 4to.

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

VI. TWO SERMONS upon part of St. JUDE's EPISTLES. Epift. Jude, ver. 17, 18, 19, 20, 21. Oxon. 1613.".4to.

Thefe Sermons were originally published by Mr. Henry Jackfon, 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 preferved in Fulman's papers in the library of Corpus Christi College, Oxford. "Edidi ante paucos dies tractatus quofdam D. Richardi Hookeri, qui omnium Applaufu, excipio Puritanos ut vocant, ita excepti funt, ut neceffe jam fit typographo noftro novam Editionem parare, quæ primâ illâ emendatior meâ curâ, deo volente, prostitura eft. Cum itaque prodierit, expecta bina exemplaria una cum Wiclefi Tractatu, quem edidi codem Tempore."

VIII. In 1641, a volume was published under the following title: "A SUMMARIE VIEW of the GOVERNMENT both of the OLD and NEW TESTAMENT; whereby the EPISCOPALL GOVERNMENT of CHRIST's CHURCH is vindicated," out of therude draughts of Launcelot Andrews, late Bishop of Winchester.

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

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

IX. THREE TREATISES inferted in the "CLAVI TRABALES *." viz. 1." On the KING'S POWER in Matters of RELIGION." 2. "Of his POWER in the ADVANCEMENT of BISHOPS to their ROOMS of PRELACY. 3. "The KING EXEMPT from CENSURE, and other JUDICIAL POWER.”

It will not be improper to notice a publication of great merit, entitled "A FAITHFUL ABRIDGMENT of the WORKS of that learned and judicious Divine, Mr. RICHARD HOOKER, in eight books, of ECCLESIASTICAL POLITY, and of all the other Treatifes which were written by the fame Author. With an Account of his Life. By a Divine of the Church of England. London, 1705.”

In "Fulman's Manufcript Hiftory of Corpus Chrifti College, Oxford," the time and birth of Mr. Hooker, with fome other particulars relative to him, are afcertained.

"Richardus Hooker apud Heavy-tree juxta Civitatem Exoniam natus eft circa finem Martii Menfis, Anno 1554 ineunte."

"He was admitted Scholar of C. C. C. Dec. 24, 1573, being twenty years old the Eafter following; and admitted Probationer, Sept. 16, 1577, being 23 years old the Eafter preceding."

* See page 506 of this work.

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OF THE AUTHENTICITY OF

The three laft Books of ECCLESIASTICAL POLITY.

HE writings of the learned and judicious Mr. Richard Hooker have fo defervedly obtained the character of fuperior excellency, that it becomes a matter of no little confequence to distinguish his genuine works from any fuppofitious productions that have appeared in his name. Of the authenticity of the three last Books of Ecclefiaftical Polity, much doubt has been entertained. As I am not inclined to hope that it is in my power to throw new light upon the fubject, I fhall merely fuggeft fome few obfervations that obviously occur on a plain reprefentation of the cafe.

The four first books of this celebrated work were first printed in 1594, and the fifth in 1597. While they were admired and applauded by wife and good men both at home and abroad, they gave great offence to that numerous band of puritanical writers, whofe unremitting zeal, in oppofing our ecclefiaftical establishment, uniformly difplayed itfelf on all occafions. In fact this performance of Mr. Hooker foon engaged the attention of those writers. They treated him with much afperity in a tract entitled "A Chriftian Letter of certain English Proteftants, unfained Favourers of the prefent State of Religion, authorised and profefled in England, unto that reverend and learned man Mr. R. HOO. requiring refolution in certaine matters of doctrine (which feeme to overthrow the foundation of Chriftian Religion, and of the Church among us) exprefslie contained in his five books of Ecclefiafticall Policie. 1599." This tract is faid to have given that wound to Mr. Hooker, "that it was not the leaft caufe to procure his death." But, "it was far otherwife," according to Dr. Covel, who, with equal modefty and learning, has difcuffed all the pofitions advanced in the Chriflian Letter; "for he contemned it in his wifdom; and yet in his humilitie would have anfwered it, if he "had lived."

It cannot be denied that Mr. Hooker completed eight books". The accomplishment of this work was the wifh nearest to his heart. He had formed in his vaftly comprehenfive mind a noble and magnificent plan. Having lived to fee that plan perfected, he died with complacency and contentment.

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See " A Juft and Temperate Defence of the Five Books of Ecclefiaftical Policie, written by Mr. Richard Hooker, against an uncharitable Letter of certain English Protestants (as they tearme themselves), craving Refolution, &c. Written by William Covel, Doctor in Divinitie. London, 1603."

bOf this circumstance Dr. Gauden feems not to be apprifed. He tells us that they were esteemed abortives, with fuch lineaments of their father's virtue and vigour in them, that they may be easily and justly owned for genuine, although perhaps they had not the laft politure of their parent's head: Their strength fhews them to be a legitimate progeny, however they may seem to want something of that beauty and luftre which always attended Mr. Hooker's confummation." (Dr. Gauden's Life, &c. of Mr. Richard Hooker, 1.14.)

Many circumstances contributed to excite a fufpicion, that an attempt would be made to fupprefs or destroy his manufcripts. This appears from a Letter written by Dr. Launcelot Andrews, who was then Mafter of Pembroke Hall in Cambridge, to Dr. Parry".

"SALUTEM IN CHRISTO,

"I cannot choose but write though you do not: I never failed fince I laft faw you, but "dayly prayed for him till this very instant you sent this heavie news. I have hitherto prayed, ferva nobis hunc : now muft I, da nobis alium. Alas for our greate lofs! And when I fay "ours, though I meane yours and myne, yet much more the common: with the loffe fince

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they have of fo greate a damage, the more fad wee neede to bewayle them and ourselves, "who knowe his workes and his worth to be fuch, as behind him he hath not (that I knowe) " left anie neere him. And whether I fhall live to knowe anie neere him, I am in greate "doubt, that I care not how manie and myself had redeemed his longer life to have done "good in a better fubject than he had in hand, though that were very good. Good brother, "have a care to deal with his executrix or executor, or (him that is like to have a greate ftroke in it) his father in lawe, that there be fpecial care and regard for preserving such "papers as he left, befides the three last books expected. By preserving I meane, that not "only they be not embezelled, and come to nothing, but that they come not into greate "hands, whoe will only have use of them quatenus et quoufque, and fuppreffe the reft, or un"happily all: but rather into the hands of fome of them that unfeinedly wifhed him well, "though of the meaner fort; who may upon good affurance (very good affurance) be trusted "with them; for it is pitie they fhould admit anie limitation. Do this, and do it mature: " it had bin more than time long fince to have bin about it, if I had fooner knowne it. If "my word or letter would doe anie good to Mr. Churchman, it should not want. But what "cannot yourself or Mr. Sandys doe therein? For Mr. Cranmer is away; happie in that he "fhall gaine a weeke or two before he knowe of it. Almightie God comfort-us over him! "whofe taking away I truft I fhall no longer live, then with grief. I remember; therefore with "grief, becausewith inward and most just honour I ever honoured him fince I knew him. "Your affured

At the Court, 7 Nov. 1600.

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"Poore loving Friend,

"L. ANDREWES.

We learn from the Latin epitaph infcribed on the monument which was erected in 1631, to the memory of Mr. Hooker, above thirty years after his death, that the suspicion was not groundlefs, and that three books were actually wanting. "Scripfit, octo Libros Politiæ Ecclefiafticæ Anglicanæ, quorum tres defiderantur."

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From a MS. in the Bodleian Library, and inferted in the Oxford edition of Mr. Hooker's works. Dr. Henry Parry, to whom this letter feems to have been addreffed, was educated in Corpus Chrifti College, Oxford. In 1607, he was appointed Bifhop of Gloucefter, and in 1610, Bishop of Worcester. He was reputed by all of his time, an able divine, well read in the Fathers, a thorough-paced difputant, and fo eloquent a preacher, that King James I. "who did ken a man of merit as well as any prince in Christendom," always profeffed he feldom heard a better. See "Wood's Ath. Ox." Vol. I. col. 416."

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