C. Biography and Criticism
Hooker, Edward. The Origin and Ancestry of Rev. Thomas Hooker. New Eng. Hist. and Gen. Reg. Vol. xlvii. 1893.
Hooker, Rev. E. W. Life of Thomas Hooker. In Lives of the Chief Fathers of New England, VI. Boston, 1849, 1870.
Hubbard, Rev. William. The History of New England. 2 Mass. Hist. Soc. Coll. vi, Chap. 41.
Mather, Cotton. Piscator Evangelicus. Or, the Life of Mr. Thomas Hooker . . . Pastor of Hartford-Church, and Pillar of Connecticut-Colony, in New-England, etc. [Boston], 1695. Reprinted in the Magnalia.
Mead, Edwin D. Thomas Hooker's Farewell Sermon in England. Mass. Hist. Soc. Proc. Vol. 46, 253-274.
Sprague, Wm. B. Annals of the American Pulpit. Vol. 1. 1857.
Stone, S. Letter to Thomas Shepard announcing the death of Hooker. 4 Mass. Hist. Soc. Coll. viii, 544.
Trumbull, J. Hammond. Text and discussion of Hooker's Sermon before the General Court on May 31, 1638. Conn. Hist. Soc. Coll. I, 19.
Walker, G. L. Thomas Hooker, Preacher, Founder, Democrat. [Makers of America.] 1891. The best life.
—Verses: by Cotton, John, and by Stone, Sam, on Hooker's death. Reprinted in Old South Leaflets, No. 53, vol. 3.
VI. Richard Mather (1596-1669)
A. Separate Works
(1) The Whole Booke of Psalms, Faithfully Translated into English Meter. Whereunto is prefixed a discourse declaring not only the lawfulness, but also the necessity of the heavenly Ordinance of singing Scripture Psalmes in the Churches of God. Cambridge, 1640. [The Bay Psalm Book, prepared in conjunction with J. Eliot and T. Weld. The first book published in America. Numerous later editions.] (2) An Answer of the . . . Churches in New England, unto nine Propositions, etc. London, 1643. (3) Church-Government and Church-Covenant discussed in an Answer to two-and-thirty Questions etc. London, 1643. [Nos. 2 and 3 also bound together and issued under the title, Church-Government and Church Covenant discussed, in an answer of the Elders of the severall Churches in New-England to two and thirty questions sent over to them. . . . Together with an Apologie of the said Elders ... As also an answer to nine positions about Church Government. London, 1643. (4) Election Sermon. [Cambridge, 1644?] [Listed in Evans, Amer. Bib. Doubtful.] (5) A Modest . . . Answer to Mr Charles Herle . . . against the Independancy of Churches, etc. London, 1644. (6) A Reply to Mr Rutherford, or a . . . Defence of the Answer to Herles Booke against the Independency of Churches, etc. London, 1647. (7) A Platform of Church discipline gathered out of the word of God: and agreed upon by the Elders: and Messengers of the Churches assembled at the Synod at Cambridge in New-England. Etc. Cambridge, 1648. London, 1653. [Probably largely by J. Cotton, though the manuscript is in the handwriting of R. M.] (8) A Catechism. . . . [Cambridge, 1650?]. (9) An Heart-melting Exhortation . . . to their dear countrey-men of Lancashire, etc. [London?], 1650. [In conjunction with J. Tompson.] (10) The Summe of Certain Sermons upon Genes: 15.6. Wherein not only the doctrine of Justification by Faith is Asserted and Cleared . . . but also the Nature and Meanes of Faith, etc. Cambridge, 1652. (11)
