The World's Great Sermons, Volume 02 - Hooker to South

The Project Gutenberg eBook, The World's Great Sermons, Vol. 2 (of 10), Edited by Grenville KleiserThis eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it,give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online atwww.gutenberg.netTitle: The World's Great Sermons, Vol. 2 (of 10)Editor: Grenville KleiserRelease Date: March 18, 2004 [eBook #11627]Language: English***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE WORLD'S GREAT SERMONS, VOL. 2 (OF 10)***E-text prepared by the Project Gutenberg Online Distributed Proofreading TeamTHE WORLD'S GREAT SERMONS, VOLUME II (of 10)HOOKER TO SOUTHCOMPILED BY GRENVILLE KLEISERFormerly of Yale Divinity School Faculty; Author of "How to Speak inPublic," Etc.With Assistance from Many of the Foremost Living Preachers and OtherTheologiansINTRODUCTION BY LEWIS O. BRASTOW, D.D.Professor Emeritus of Practical Theology in Yale UniversityIN TEN VOLUMESHOOKERTHE ACTIVITY OF FAITH; OR, ABRAHAM'S IMITATORSBIOGRAPHICAL NOTEThomas 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 appearbefore Laud, the Bishop of London, whose threats induced ...