had been so thoroughly overshadowed by the many-layered myth of the judicious, via media Hooker that had grown up around them, that he could regularly be invoked as a paragon of Anglican “sweet reasonableness” over against the enemy of the moment (Calvinists and evangelicals being the two most likely parties), without so much as a citation or quotation being needed. Moreover, certain modern Anglican theological truisms, such as the idea that one ought not really draw a distinction between the visible