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The World's Great Sermons, Vol. 2 (of 10) - Hooker to South
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Title: The World's Great Sermons, Vol. 2 (of 10)
Editor: Grenville Kleiser
Release Date: March 18, 2004 [eBook #11627]
Language: English
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THE WORLD'S GREAT SERMONS, VOLUME II (of 10)
HOOKER TO SOUTH
COMPILED BY GRENVILLE KLEISER Formerly of Yale Divinity School Faculty; Author of "How to Speak in Public," Etc.
With Assistance from Many of the Foremost Living Preachers and Other Theologians
INTRODUCTION BY LEWIS O. BRASTOW, D.D. Professor Emeritus of Practical Theology in Yale University
IN TEN VOLUMES
HOOKER
THE ACTIVITY OF FAITH; OR, ABRAHAM'S IMITATORS
BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE
Thomas Hooker, graduate and fellow of Cambridge, England, and practically founder of Connecticut, was born in 1586. He was dedicated to the ministry, and began his activities in 1620 by taking a small parish in Surrey. He did not, however, attract much notice for his powerful advocacy of reformed doctrine, until 1629, when he was cited to appear before Laud, the Bishop of London, whose threats induced him to leave England for Holland, whence he sailed with John Cotton