John Hacket

John Hacket (né Halket; 1 September 1592 – 28 October 1670) was an English churchman, Bishop of Lichfield and Coventry from 1661 until his death.

Quotes

• The Lord hath set every thing in its place and order, and what is there which he cannot root up and displant again?
  • A Century of Sermons (1675), Sermon XXI

About

• Can we wonder that the strict Protestants were jealous of the backsliding of the Arminian prelatical clergy and of Laud their leader, when so strict a Calvinist as Bishop Hacket could trick himself up in such fantastic rags and lappets of Popish monkery!—could skewer such frippery patches, cribbed from the tyring room of Romish Parthenolatry, on the sober gown and cassock of a Reformed and Scriptural Church!
  • Samuel Taylor Coleridge, "Notes on Hacket"; Literary Remains, vol. 3 (1836), p. 174