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Izaak Walton, whose biography of Richard Hooker was first published in 1665, makes the Paul's Cross sermon a crucial incident in Hooker's life, establishing him as a controversial author identified as anti-Calvinist and incidentally leading to a bad marriage that would ultimately maim his work. Judging by the norms of Paul's Cross sermons, it was probably preceded and followed by prayers, and possibly sung Psalms, it began about 10 am, and lasted about two hours. The mayor and corporation of the city of London were probably in attendance. And it would not have been unusual for the crowd in attendance to express their approval or disapproval loudly. Hooker himself indicated that the subject of the sermon was 'the matter of predestination', that he had retained a written copy of the sermon, and that the matter was carefully and fully argued in the sermon. Keywords: anti-Calvinist; Izaak Walton; London; Paul's Cross sermon; Richard Hooker |
