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.

1.ECTURER OF THE UNITED PARISHES OF ST. MARY WOOLNOTH AND ST. MARY WOOL CHURCH LIAW,

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. WJIITE.

1808.

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CONTENTS TO VOL. VI.

1. 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 Six EDMOND Bacon, Knight

.........

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III. OCCASIONAL MEDITATIONS, BY Jos. Exon. Set FORTH BY

R. H.-JOSEPHI Halli EXONIENSIS EPISCOPI ATTOEXEAIAEMATA;

vel MEDITATIUNCULÆ SUBITANEÆ.

English Dedication, by Robert Hall, to James LORD VIscount

DONCASTER...

104

Latin Dedication, by Bishop Hall, to James LORD VISCOUNT

CARLISLE....

The Proem-Proloquium ad Lectorem..............................................

Occasional Meditations. .

1. On the sight of the heavens Conspecto cæli motu ............ 107

moving

2. On the sight of a dial ............... Ad conspectum horarii scio.

terici................................

108

3. On the sight of an eclipse of the Visâ eclipsi solis......

4. On the sight of a gliding star...... Conspectå stellà cadente....., ib.

5. On a fair prospect ..................... Viso luculento quodam pros-

pectu......

6. On the frame of a globe casually De globi fabricà casu con-

broken

fractå .................... ........... 112

7. On a cloud

....... Ad conspectum nubis .... 113

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

fossi ........................

9. On the sight of gold melted ...... Ad conspectum auri liquati..... ib.

10. On the sight of a pitcher carried. Ad conspectum amphoræ cir-

cumgestatæ ........................ 115

11. On the sight of a tree full blos. Ad conspectum arboris niiniùm

somed

efflorescentis

......... 116

12. On the report of a man suddenly De quodam subità morte, in
struck dead in his sin

actu peccati, abrepto ......... ib.

13. On the view of the heaven and Ad conspectum cæli et terræ... 117

earth

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