The Ecclesiastical Polity and Other Works of Richard Hooker

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: A JUST AND TEMPERATE DEFENCE OF THE FIVE BOOKS OF ECCLESIASTICAL POLITY WRITTEN BY Mr. RICHARD HOOKER: AGAINST AN UNCHARITABLE LETTER OF CERTAIN ENGLISH PROTESTANTS'' (AS THEY TERM THEMSELVES) CRAVING RESOLUTION, IN SOME MATTERS OF DOCTRINE, WHICH SEEM TO OVERTHROW THE FOUNDATION OF RELIGION, AND THE...
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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: A JUST AND TEMPERATE DEFENCE OF THE FIVE BOOKS OF ECCLESIASTICAL POLITY WRITTEN BY Mr. RICHARD HOOKER: AGAINST AN UNCHARITABLE LETTER OF CERTAIN ENGLISH PROTESTANTS'' (AS THEY TERM THEMSELVES) CRAVING RESOLUTION, IN SOME MATTERS OF DOCTRINE, WHICH SEEM TO OVERTHROW THE FOUNDATION OF RELIGION, AND THE CHURCH AMONGST US. WILLIAM COVEL, D. U. The righteous shall be had in everlasting remembrance.?Psalm cxii. 6. FIRST PRINTED IN THE YEAR 1603. VOL. II. O G THE EDITOR'S PRELIMINARY REMARKS. Dr. Zouch says, that Dr. Covel, with equal modesty and learning, has discussed all the positions advanced in the Christian Letter (p. 309.). This is not saying much for the ahility or success of the Defence. But another D.D. has assumed a higher tone, and moves with a lofiier bearing; he says, speaking of the Letter, ? This book is one of the earliest productions of those malcontents, who were afterwards called ' Doctrinal Puritans: ' and he adds, that he believes the work is deserving of notice, as exhibiting the earliest example, hoth in matter and manner, of the argument of those numerous publications in which some Calvinistic writers have thoughtlessly and intemperately indulged themselves, from the days of this ' Christian Letter.' Anon, he proceeds thus: Can it be believed, the Authors of the Letter in question tax the meek, the wise, the virtuous, the saint-like Richard Hooker with betraying and renouncing the doctrines to which he had solemnly subscribed. They charge him with designs of bringing back Popery. They accuse him of a wanton attack on the memory of Calvin. They condemn him of unsoundness of doctrine respecting Grace, and Free Will, and Justification, and Predestination, and the conditions of the Christia...