Thomas Hooker
Thomas Hooker [1]
An eminent Congregational minister, was born July 7, 1586, at Marfield, Leicestershire, Eng. He was successively student and professor at Emanuel College, Cambridge. After preaching a short time in London, he settled in 1626 at Chelmsford as assistant minister. In 1630 he was silenced by archbishop Laud for nonconformity, and enjoined, under a bond of fifty pounds, to come before the Court of High Commission; but forfeiting the bond, he escaped to Holland, and remained three years, when he returned, and sailed, July, 1633, for Boston. He arrived in this country Sept. 4, and was ordained first pastor of the church in Cambridge, Oct. 11. After a stay of nearly three years (June, 1636), in company with Mr. Stone, the teacher in his church, and others, he started into what was then the wilderness, and settled at Hartford. He died at that place July 7, 1647. Hooker published The Soul's Ingrafting into Christ (1637) — The Soul's Implantation; A Treatise containing The Broken Heart, The Preparing of the Heart, The Soul's Ingrafting into Christ, Spiritual Love and Joy (1637) — The Soul's Preparation for Christ. (1638) — The Unbeliever's Preparation for Christ, parts 1 and 2 (1638) — The Soul's Exaltation-embracing Union with Christ, Benefits of Union with Christ, and Justification (1638) — The Soul's Vocation, or Effectual Calling to Christ (1638) — Ten Particular Rules to be practiced every day by Converted Christians (1641) — Survey of the Sum of Church Discipline (1648) — Christ's Prayer for Believers; A Series of Discourses founded on John 17, 20-26 (1657) — The Soul's Possession Of Christ — The Soul'S Justification; Eleven Sermons On 2 Corinthians 5:21; Proverbs 1:28-29; and a number of occasional sermons. See Neal, Hist. Of Y. England; Sprague, Annals, 2: 317; Hagenbach, Hist. Of' Doctrines, 2: 192, 298; Neal, Hist. Of The Puritans, 1, 317; Contrib. to Ecclesiastes Hist. of Connecticut (1861, 8vo), p. 16,. 23, 87, 404, 412.
