Excerpt from The Works of Mr. Richard Hooker, That Learned, Godly, Judicious, and Eloquent Divine; Vindicating the Church of England, as Truly Christian, and Duly Reformed: In Eight Books of Ecclesiastical Polity; Now Compleated, as With the Sixth and Eighth, So With the Seventh; With an Account of His Holy Life, and Happy Death
God, Gilbert now Load Bifhop. Of London, thofc genuine additions are now made of the three lajt Boolq, promifed and performed by him, bu: lo'ng concealed from publique vieni not without great injury to the pubhque good. I mu confers; l was never m'ore encouraged to fuch an undertaking by the real worth and il luftrious merit (in general) of any hutch-man being {ct beyond all attery or filiity on this part, and fubjee't to do neither him nor myfelf any injury, but by my own defects Nor was I ever lefs enabled to Perform {opnblikea'feroicg as to chofe firpplics of particular remarkr, and exact memorial: of l'lls Life and Death which are ngcc 'ary to n'iahe a compleat Hifiory or polll trait of him; in whom {ome things {verc admirable, many things imit'able, and all things commendable, yet hath no ac count publique or private hitherto been given of him, by any Writing or lnfo'r.
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The Works of Mr. Richard Hooker, That Learned, Godly, Judicious, and Eloquent Divine; Vindicating the Church of England, as Truly Christian, and Duly ... as With the Sixth and Eighth, So With
