HOOKER’S POLITY IN MODERN ENGLISH......................................... 2
PART ONE: GOD AND THE LAW............................................................ 3
PREFACE.................................................................................................... 3
Chapter 1: The Necessity of the Law......................................................... 9
Chapter 2: God and Eternal Law............................................................. 12
Chapter 3: The Natural Law.................................................................... 18
Chapter 4: The Law for Voluntary Agents................................................ 24
Chapter 5: The Law of Reason................................................................ 29
Chapter 6: Human Laws and the Body Politic.......................................... 35
Chapter 7: Supernatural Law and Human Felicity..................................... 40
PART TWO: THE INCARNATION AND THE SACRAMENTS............. 45
Chapter 8: The Scriptures and the Way of
Salvation................................. 46
Chapter 9: Prayer and the Sacrament....................................................... 51
Chapter 10: The Personal Incarnation of the Son
of God.......................... 57
Chapter 11: The Union of the Two Natures of
Christ................................ 62
Chapter 12: The Omnipresence of Christ................................................. 67
Chapter 13: Participation in Christ............................................................ 72
Chapter 14: The Necessity of the Sacraments for
Participation in Christ.... 77
Chapter 15: The Sacrament of Baptism.................................................... 81
Chapter 16: The Sacrament of the Body and Blood
of Christ.................... 85
PART THREE: THE ORDERS OF THE MINISTRY................................. 90
Chapter 17: The Church Mystical and the Church
Visible......................... 91
Chapter 18: The Church, The Ministry, and
Temporal Happiness............. 97
Chapter 19: The Ministry of Things Divine.............................................. 103
Chapter 20: The Three Degrees of Ecclesiastical
Order in the Ministry.... 108
Chapter 21: Bishops in the Church of Christ........................................... 112
PART FOUR CHURCH AND STATE.................................................... 116
Chapter 22: Church and State as One.................................................... 117
Chapter 23: The King as a Limited Sovereign......................................... 121
Chapter 24: The King as Temporal Head of the
Church......................... 126
Chapter 25: Christ as Supreme Sovereign.............................................. 130
Chapter 26: Christ as Spiritual Head of the Church................................. 135