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[HOOKER, THOMAS], The Soules Preparation for Christ. Or, A Treatise on Contrition ....
London: Printed [by M. Flesher] for Robert Dawlman, 1632. Second Edition. 4to in 8's. [6], 242 pp. Rebound in 3/4 brown crushed levant, raised bands, a.e.g. But for some light soiling to the title-page a most superior copy. STC 13735.5. ΒΆ Hooker's preaching in England "attracted great public attention and the malevolent eye of Laud." DAB IX:199. Rather than face the High Commission he fled to Holland and eventually found his way to the Massachusetts colony. From there he settled in what is now Hartford, Connecticut. "He was emphatically one of the founders of the state [of Connecticut]." As an author he was mainly the producer of religious tracts and sermons
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