1632 OF THE LAWS OF ECCLESIASTICAL POLITIE BY HOOKER DIVINE RELIGIOUS LAW CUSTOM

Description: I have here for sale a VERY EARLY religious tracts book entitled OF THE LAWES OF ECCLESIASTICAL POLITIE by Richard Hooker (books 1-5 only of projected group of 8 books, as Hooker died before books 6-8 could be written) as well as other bound-in tracts by Hooker. Published in 1632 by William Stansby and sold by G Lathum, London. The book consists of: Message to the Reader - 5 pages Preface with illustrated chapter header and capital letter - 43 pages Explanation as to what is in the 8 books - 1 page Bookes 1-5 - 243 pages Certayne Divine Tractates and other Godly Sermons by Hooker - illustrated title page Supplication made to the Councell by Master Walter Travers - 12 pagesAn Answere of Mr Richard Hooker to a Supplication preferred by Mr Walter Travers to the Honorable Lords of the Privie Councell with illustrated title page - 16 pagesA Learned Discourse of Justification, Workes, and how the foundation of Faith is overthrowne, dated 1631 - illustrated title page and illustrated capital to first page - 36 pages Five Learned Sermons written by Richard Hooker 1631 - illustrated title page, A Learned Sermon of the Nature of Pride - 9 pages; A Remedie against Sorrow and Feare delivered in a Funerall Sermon - 7 pages; A Learned and Comfortable Sermon of the Certaintie and Perpetuitie of Faith in the Elect; especially of the Prophet Habakkuks Faith - 8 pages; 4 & 5. Two Sermons upon Part of St Judes Epistle dated 1631 - 30 pages Richard Hooker (25 March 1554 – 2 November 1600) was an English priest in the Church of England and an influential theologian. He was one of the most important English theologians of the sixteenth century. His defence of the role of redeemed reason informed the theology of the seventeenth-century Caroline Divines and later provided many members of the Church of England with a theological method which combined the claims of revelation, reason and tradition. Half brown leathr on buff hardboards with gilt border between the two. Gilt decorative bands, motifs and lettering to the spine. Front board a little loose. A few light stains to the front board. Both hinges are split. First few pages are loose. Some pencil marginalia. Page 181 has a couple of repairs. The odd spot of foxing but generally clean especially for a book which is nearly 400 years old! 27 x 19 cm. Postage will be by Air Mail outside of UK. If you buy more than one item then the postage cost falls for the second and further items as I will put them into one parcel - so you save money. We wrap and post the parcels on Monday and Tuesday - therefore if you pay before midday on Tuesday we will get it in the postal sacks on Tuesday night, and if it is after that time then it will go into the postal service on the following Monday. We have over 2000 items in our Ebay shop on a range of subjects, so please feel free to have a browse and see if anything else takes your fancy.

Price: 249.99 GBP

Location: Whitegate, Cheshire

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