The World's Great Sermons, Volume 02: Hooker to South

This is a curated collection of some of Christianity's most powerful pulpit addresses. Volume Two gathers sermons from the colonial and Restoration periods, featuring Thomas Hooker's bracing examination of faith as transformative action and Jeremy Taylor's luminous meditations on grace and human frailty. These are not gentle readings. Hooker demands that true belief must produce visible fruit in how one lives. Taylor pleads for the cultivation of inner holiness with an eloquence that still startles three centuries later. The sermons here presuppose a listener grappling with questions that never go out of season: What does God require of me? How do I live worthy of salvation? What remains when everything else falls away? For readers seeking roots rather than leaves, these voices from the past speak with startling directness to the present moment.