WORKS

OF THE

RIGHT REVEREND FATHER IN GOD,

JOSEPH HALL, D. D.

SUCCESSIVELY BISHOP OF EXETER AND NORWICH:

NOW FIRST COLLECTED.

WITH SOME

ACCOUNT OF HIS LIFE AND SUFFERINGS,

WRITTEN BY HIMSELF.

ARRANGED AND REVISED,

WITH A GLOSSARY, INDEX, AND OCCASIONAL NOTES,

BY JOSIAH PRATT, B.D. F.A.S.

LECIURER OF THE UNITED PARISHES OF ST. MARY WOOLNOTH AND ST. MARY WOOLCHURCH HAW,
AND LADY CAMDEN'S WEDNESDAY EVENING LECTURER AT THE CHURCH OF

ST. LAWRENCE JEWRY, LONDON.

IN TEN VOLUMES.

VOL. VI.-DEVOTIONAL WORKS.

LONDON:

PRINTED BY C WHITTINGHAM,

Dean Street

FOR WILLIAMS AND SMITH, STATIONERS' COURT;

J. BURDITT; BYFIELD AND SON; T. CONDER; J. HATCHARD; MATHEWS AND

LEIGII; J. NUNN; F. C. AND J. RIVINGTON; L. B. SEELEY; VERNOR,

HOOD, AND SHARPE; J. WALKER; AND J. WIIITE.

:

CONTENTS TO VOL. VI.

I, MEDITATIONS AND VOWS; DIVINE AND MORAL. SERV-
ING FOR DIRECTIONS IN CHRISTIAN AND CIVIL PRAC-
TICE. THREE CENTURIES.

First Century: dedicated to SIR ROBERT DRURY, Knight...............

Second Century: dedicated to the LADY DRURY

Third Century: dedicated to SIR EDMOND BACON, Knight

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II. HOLY OBSERVATIONS. ONE BOOK.

Dedication to EDWARD LORD DENNY

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Holy Observations

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III. OCCASIONAL MEDITATIONS, BY JOS. EXON. SET FORTH BY

R. H.-JOSEPHI HALLI EXONIENSIS EPISCOPI ΑΥΤΟΣΧΕΔΙΑΣΜΑΤΑ;

vel MEDITATIUNCULE SUBITAΝΕΞ.

English Dedication, by Robert Hall, to JAMES LORD VISCOUNT

DONCASTER.....

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Latin Dedication, by Bishop Hall, to JAMES LORD VISCOUNT

CARLISLE....

The Proem-Proloquium ad Lectorem..

OCCASIONAL MEDITATIONS.

1. On the sight of the heavens

moving

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2. On the sight of a dial

Ad conspectum nubis

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8. On the sight of a grave digged up. Ad conspectum sepulchri ef-