Hooker, Thomas, an eminent Congregational minister, was born July 7, 1586, at Marfield, Leicester- shire, 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 hj arch- bishop 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 Hol- land, and remained three years, when he returned, and sailed, July, 1633, for Boston. He arrived in this coun- try 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 Jlr. 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 SouVs Ligr of ting into Christ (1637) :— r/ze Soid's Im- plantation; a Treatise containing The Broken Heart, The Preparing of the Heart, The SouTs Ingrafting into Christ, Spiritual Love and Joy (1G37) : — The SouVs Prep- aration for Christ (1638): — The Unbeliever's Prepara- tion for Christ, parts i and ii (1638) -.—The SouVs Exal- tation— embracing Union unth Christ, Benefts of Union Kith Christ, and Justif cation (1638) : — The SouVs Voca- tion, or Effectual Calling to Christ (1638) -.—Ten Partic- ular Rules to he practised every day by Converted Chris- tians (1641): — Survey of the Sum of Church Discipline (1648) : — Christ's Prayer for Believers ; a Series of Dis- courses founded on John xvii, 20-26 (1657) : — The SouVs Possession of Christ : — The SouPs Justification ; eleven Sermons on 2 Corinthians v, 21 ; Proverbs i, 28, 29 ; and
a number of occasional sermons. See Neal, Hist, of IS/". England; Spragne, A ?mals, ii, 317 ; Hsigenha.ch, Hist, of Doctrines, ii, 192, 298 ; Neal, Hist, of the Puritans, i, 317 ; Contrib. to Eccles. Hist, of Connecticut (1861, 8vo),p. 16, 23,87,404,412.
Hooper, George, D.D., an English prelate, bom in Worcestershire in 1640, was educated at St.Paid's and AVestminster School, and aftenvards at Christ Church, Oxford. He first became chaplain of Morley, bishop of Winchester, and, later, archbishop Sheldon gave him the living of Lambeth. In 1677 he was appointed almoner of the princess of Orange. On the accession of William, the queen chose Hooper for her chaplain, and he was appointed dean of Canterbury in 1691. In 1703 he was made bishop of St. Asaph, and in March following was transferred to the see of Bath and Wells. He died at Barkley, Somersetshire, in September, 1727. His prin- cipal ■works are, A fair and methodiccd Discussion of the first and great Controversy between the Church of Eng- land and the Church of Rome, conceniing the Infallible Guide (Lond. 1687) : — De Valentinianorum Haresi Con- jecture, quibus illius oiigo ex yEgyptiaca theologia de- ducitur (ibid. 1711) : — A n Inquiry into A ncient Measures, etc., and especially the Jewish, with an Appendix concern- ing our old English Money and Measures of Content (ib. 1721). There has been but one complete edition of his Works, namely, that pubUshed by Dr. Hunt, Hebrew professor (Oxf. 1757, fol.). Sec Todd, Lives of the Deans of Canterbury ; Hoefer, Nouv. Biog. Generale, xxv, 124,
Hooper (HorER, or Houper), John, an English bishop, and one of the martjTS of the Reformation, was born in Somersetshire about 1495. He was educated at INIerton College, Oxford. Having embraced the doc- trines of the Reformation, he was obliged to leave the university, and finally the country in 1540. He went to Switzerland, passing most of his time at Zurich. On the accession of Edward VI (1547) he returned to Eng- land, and acquired great reputation in London as a preacher. In 1550 he was made bishop of Gloucester, but his repugnance to wearing the vestments of that of- fice caused considerable delay in his consecration. Af- ter entering on his duties, he labored with great zeal for the cause of the Reformation. In 1552 he was appoint- ed bishop of Worcester in commendam. In the early part of the reign of Mary (1553), he was arrested and condemned to be burned at the stake for his Protestant zeal. He firmly refused all offers of pardon which re- quired the abandonment of his prmciples, and though, on account of the wood with which he was burned be- ing green, he suffered the severest torments for nearly an hour, he manifested unshaken fortitude. He died Feb. 9, 1555. Hooper was the author of a number of sermons and controversial treatises. Among his best works are A Declaration of Christ and his Office (1547, 8vo) : — Lesson of the Incai-nation of Christ (1549, 8vo) : — Twelve Lectures on the Creed (1581 , 8vo). Several let- ters of Hooper are preserved in the archives of Ziu-ich. We have recent reprints, by the Parker Society, of The Early Writings of Bishop Hooper, edited by the Rev. S. Can- (Cambridge, 1843, 8vo) ; and of his Later Writings, with Letters, etc., edited by the Rev. C. Nevinson (Cam- bridge, 1852, 8vo). A sketch of his Ufe and writings is given in the British Reformers, vol. iv (Lond. Tract Society). See Wood, A thence Oxonienses, vol. i ; Fox, Book of Martyrs ; Middleton, Evangel. Biogr. ; Hoefer, Nouv.Biog. Generale, xxv, 123; Eiumet, Z^m^ of Engl. Reformation, vols, ii and iii ; Hook, Eccles. Biography, vi, 148 ; Tulloch (John), Engl. Puritanism and its Leaders (1861, 12mo), p. 8 sq. ; Baxter, Ch. Hi.^t. of Engl. p. 408, 446 ; Skeats, Hist, of the Free Churches, p. 8 sq. ; ]\Iid- dleton, Reformers, iii, 242 ; Hardwick, Reform, p. 215 sq., 409, 425 sq.; Weslej-, iro7-fo,ii,292; v,368; vi,67,197; Collier. Eccles. Hist, v, 376 sq. ; Fuller, Ch. Hist, iv, bk. vii, p. 66 ; Brit, and For. Rev. Oct. 1868, p. 881 ; Soames, Hist, of the Reform, iii, 558 sq. ; Neal, Hist, of the Puri- tans, i, 51 sq. ; Bemiett, Hist, of Dissenters, p. 133 ; Pun-