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The Works of Mr. Richard Hooker. to Which Is Prefixed the Life of the Author by I. Walton
The Works of Mr Richard Hooker to Which Is Prefixed the Life of the Author by I Walton Author:Richard Hooker General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1839 Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million book... more »s for free. Excerpt: TO THE READER. The pleasures of thy spacious walks in Mr. Hooker's Temple- garden (not unfitly so called, both for the Temple whereof he was Master, and the subject, Ecclesiastical Polity) do promise acceptance to these flowers, planted and watered by the same hand, and, for thy sake, composed into this posy. Sufficiently are they commended by their fragrant smell, in the dogmatical truth; by their beautiful colours, in the accurate style; by their medicinable virtue, against some diseases in our neighbour churches, now proving epidemical, and threatening farther infection ; by their straight feature and spreading nature, growing from the root of faith (which, as here is proved, can never be rooted up), and extending the branches of charity to the covering of Noah's nakedness; opening the windows of hope to men's misty conceits of their bemisted forefathers. Thus, and more than thus, do the works commend themselves : the workman needs a better workman to commend him (Alexander's picture requires Apelles's pencil); nay, he needs it not, His own works commend him in the gates; and, being dead he yet speaketh; the syllables of that memorable name, Mr. Richard Hooker, proclaiming more, than if I should here style him, a painful student, a profound scholar, a judicious writer, with other due titles of his honour. Receive then this post- hume orphan for his own, yea, for thine own sake; and if the printer hath, with over-much haste, like Mephibosheth's nurse, lamed the child with slips and falls, yet be thou of David's mind, shew kindness to him for his father Jonathan's sake. God grant, that the rest of hi...« less