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

The second volume includes Hooker’s thoughts and expositions on church life. He includes practical topics such as duties of ministers, appropriate attire, length, prayers, communion, baptism, and marriage ceremonies. Hooker goes into careful detail on each of these subjects and more, providing valuable insight on daily life for laity and for ministers alike.

public regiment: as well in regard of that aid and protection1 which they who faithfully serve God confess they receive at his merciful hands; as also for the force which religion hath to qualify all sorts of men, and to make them in public affairs the more serviceable2, governors the apter to rule with conscience, inferiors for conscience’ sake the willinger to obey. It is no peculiar conceit, but a matter of sound consequence, that all duties are by so much the better performed, by how much the
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