Important Tractate by Richard Hooker now available

The Preservation Press of the Prayer Book Society of the USA is pleased to announce the publication of an important and much quoted/cited Tractate of the famous Anglican divine, Richard Hooker.

Single copies can be ordered on line from www.anglicanmarketplace.com from September 15th

Also it is available from the Office of the Prayer Book Society on a special offer – two for the price of one shipping included – during September. See below for details of how to order.


Richard Hooker (d.1600) Salvation and the Church of Rome (original title “A Learned Discourse on Justification, Works, and how the Foundation of Faith is overthrown”)

Hooker is amongst the most important of Anglican theologians and his fame rests particularly with his book, Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity, which is a massive defense of the Church of England and its Reformed Catholic Faith.

He also wrote other things and of these none is more important than his Tractate which deals with these themes: -- Puritanism, the Church of Rome, the essential basis of the Church of God, and how the doctrine of justification believed, taught and confessed by the Church of England differs from the doctrine of the Church of Rome. This text began its existence as several sermons preached in The Temple Church, London, to barristers, many of whom were Puritans.

Hooker’s literary style is polished but difficult for many people today to appreciate and master, due to the long sentences and complex syntax. Therefore, in this booklet of 64 pages the Discourse has been carefully rendered into modern English in order to make available Hooker’s profound teaching to as many people as possible.

There is a historical and theological introduction before the Text of the Tractate as a further help to the reader.

In the present crisis of Anglicanism there is much to be said for consulting Hooker as to certain basic features of the Anglican Way!

(To get the special offer of 2 for 1 price, send a check for $7.50 to The Prayer Book Society, P.O. Box 35220, Philadelphia, PA. 19128-0220 and state that you want the 2 for 1 Hooker offer. Contact thomascranmer2000@yahoo.com if any problems in ordering)