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.

LECTURER 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. VII.-PRACTICAL WORKS.

LONDON:

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FOR WILLIAMS AND SMITH, STATIONERS' COURT;

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1808

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CONTENTS OF VOL. VII.

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Section

PRACTICAL WORKS.

I. HEAVEN UPON EARTH: OR, OF TRUE PEACE AND TRANQUILLITY

OF MIND.

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Dedication to HENRY EARL OF HUNTINGDON..

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Analysis of this Treatise.......

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1. Censure of Philosophers.........

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2. What Tranquillity is, and wherein it consists.......

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3. Insufficiency of human precepts.—Seneca's rules of Tranquillity

abridged. --Rejected as insufficient.-Disposition of the work... ib.

4. Enemies of inward Peace divided into their ranks.—The Tor-

ment of an Evil Conscience. The joy and peace of the guilty

but dissembled.........

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3. The Remedy of an Unquiet Conscience...

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6. The Receipt of our Peace offered by Faith.-A corollary of the

benefit of this receipt.—The vain shifts of the guilty..... 12

7. Solicitation of sin remedied. The ordering of affections.... 14

8. The second main enemy to Peace, Crosses...

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9. Of Crosses that arise from conceit......

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10. Of true and real Crosses.......

ib.

11. The first remedy of Crosses, before they coine.........

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12. The second remedy of Crosses, when they are come: from their

Author .....

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13. The third antidote of Crosses: from their Etfect.....

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14. The fourth antidote of Crosses : from their Issue.....

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15. Of the importunity and terror of Death .........

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16. The grounds of the fear of Death .......

ib.

17. Remedy of the last and greatest breach of peace, arising from

Death....

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18. The second rank of the enemies of Peace. The first remedy of

an over prosperous estate : the vanity and unprofitableness of

Riches : the first enemy on the right hand......

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19. The second enemy on the right hand, Honour.....

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20. The second remedy of overjoyed prosperity: That it exposes to

evil........

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21. The vanity of Pleasure : the third enemy on the right hand....... 28

22. Positive Rules of our Peace.-The fruition of God in holy exer-

cises.......

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23. The subordinate Rules of Tranquillity. 1. For Actions : To re-

frain from all sin, and to perform all duty.....

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24. 2. Rule for our actions : To do nothing doubtingly.

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25. Rules for Estate : 1. Reliance upon the providence of God....... 34

26. The second rule for estate : A persuasion of the goodness and fit-

ness of it for us......

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27. The Conclusion of the whole...

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