THE WORKS

OF

MR. RICHARD HOOKER.

"All things written in this booke I humbly and meekly submit to the censure of the grave and reverend Prelates within this land, to the judgment of learned men, and the sober consideration of all others. Wherein I may happely erre as others before me have done, but an heretike by the help of Almighty God I will never be.”—HOOKER, MS. Note on the title leaf of the "Christian Letter."

GENERAL CONTENTS.

Editor's Preface

VOL. I.

Walton's Dedication to Bishop Morley

Preface to the First Edition of the Life of Hooker

Page

i-cxiii

CXV

I

Appendix to the Life of Hooker

Further Appendix, &c.

Spenser's Preface to the Reader

Preface to the Books of the Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity

Of the Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity, The First Book

The Second Rook

The Third Book

The Fourth Book

VOL. II.

Of the Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity, The Fifth Book

Hooker's Dedication to Archbishop Whitgift

Appendix to Book V.

VOL. III.

3

88

100

121

125

... 197

286

... 337

416

I

ibid.

537

Of the Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity, The Sixth Book

Appendix to Book VI.

Of the Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity, The Seventh Book

Of the Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity, The Eighth Book

Appendix to Book VIII.

IN this Edition the General Index has been somewhat altered and enlarged. A separate Index of all Texts of Holy Scripture quoted in Hooker's Works, and a Glossary of Words strange either in themselves or in Hooker's use of them, have been added. In the preparation of the Glossary valuable help has been most kindly given by F. J. Furnival, Esq., one of the Honorary Secretaries of the Philological Society.

November 1862,