Preaching and Publication — Chronology and the Style of Thomas Hooker's Sermons

Abstract

In 1630 Thomas Hooker left England to avoid further prosecution by Archbishop Laud. Before him lay an uncertain future, first in Holland, and then, after 1633, in America; behind him, years of increasing recognition as one of the most effective Puritan preachers, especially while he was a lecturer at Chelmsford in Essex. Yet by 1630 only two of Hooker's works had been published: The Poore Doubting Christian Drawne Unto Christ, and the “Epistle to the Reader” in John Rogers' The Doctrine of Faith. Both appeared in 1629.