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The Works of that Learned and Judicious Divine, Mr. Richard Hooker, Vol. I is unavailable, but you can change that!

This first volume includes biographical information about the life of Hooker, providing valuable context before delving into his theological treatises. Hooker's most famous essay, Of the Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity is included in this work. Some of the topics Hookers covers in this work are harmony of the Old and New Testaments, the goodness of the laws and traditions, differences between laws...

is the card to guide the world by; that law which hath been of God and with God everlastingly; that law, the author and observer whereof is one only God to be blessed for ever: how should either men or angels be able perfectly to behold? The book of this law we are neither able nor worthy to open and look into. That little thereof which we darkly apprehend we admire, the rest with religious ignorance we humbly and meekly adore. [6.] Seeing therefore that according to this law He worketh, “of whom,
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