order by means whereof, the lower sustaining always the more
excellent and the higher perfecting the more base, they are in
their times and seasons continued with most exquisite
correspondence. Labours of bodily and daily toil purchase freedom
for actions of religious joy, which benefit these actions requite
with the gift of desired rest--a thing most natural and fit to
accompany the solemn festival duties of honour which are done to
God. For if those principal works of God, the memory whereof we
use to celebrate at such times, be but certain tastes and
says,[18] as it were, of that final benefit wherein our perfect
felicity and bliss lieth folded up, seeing that the presence of
the one doth direct our cogitations, thoughts, and desires
towards the other, it giveth surely a kind of life and addeth
inwardly no small delight to those so comfortable anticipations,
especially when the very outward countenance of that we presently
do representeth, after a sort, that also whereunto we tend. As
festival rest doth that celestial estate whereof the very
heathens themselves, which had not the means whereby to apprehend
much, did notwithstanding imagine that it must needs consist in
rest, and have therefore taught that above the highest movable
sphere there is no thing which feeleth alteration, motion, or
change; but all things immutable, unsubject to passion, blest
with eternal continuance in a life of the highest perfection, and
of that complete abundant sufficiency within itself which no
possibility of want, maim, or defect, can touch."

[18] "Assays."

Hooker's defects have been already admitted, and it has to be added to them
that he was necessarily destitute of much useful vocabulary which his
successors inherited or added, and that he had absolutely no model of
style. What he lacked was the audacity to be, not like Sidney more flowery,
not like the contemporary pamphleteers more slangy, but more intelligently
vernacular; to follow in the mould of his sentences the natural order of
English speech rather than the conventional syntax of Latin, and to
elaborate for himself a clause-architecture or order, so to speak, of
word-building, which should depend upon the inherent qualities of euphony
and rhythm possessed by English. It is, however, quite certain that nothing
was further from Hooker's thoughts