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Richard Hooker on Anglican Faith and Worship: Of the Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity: Book V is unavailable, but you can change that!

Richard Hooker (1554-1600) is the premier theologian of the Anglican religious tradition. Portions of his great apologia for Anglicanism, Of the Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity—still required reading in most Anglican seminaries—has been seminal for most Anglican theologians since the early seventeenth century. Unfortunately, Hooker’s defining ideas about the Church, the sacraments, Holy Scripture,...

from any particular properties observed in the Sacraments, the matter of which they truly consist is such as to signify, display and represent that divine grace that is their purpose. Their efficacy is obscured from our understanding until we look more closely to discover what particular grace the Sacraments impart and how they operate. Sacraments are of use only in this life but they concern a far better life than this one and so are accompanied by that grace which effectuates our salvation. Sacraments
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