CONTENTS.

PART I.

INCLUDING THE PERIOD FROM 1795 TO 1805.

State of the congregation at Cambridge, page 1. First impressions

of Mr. Hall as a preacher, 2. Not deficient in orthodoxy, 3.

Description of his lodgings in the Petty Cury, and his studious

habits, 6. His manner of visiting his people, 7. His preaching

in the villages, ib. The benighted condition of the villages at

that time, though so near a celebrated seat of learning, ib.

Anecdote of the village of Coten, 8. Mr. Hall's practice of

open communion, ib. Anecdote of Mr. Hall's visit to Dr. Porteus,

then Bishop of London, ib. Mr. Hall's happy method of exciting

a thirst for knowledge in youth, 9. Maxims-books recom-

mended, 10. His plan of reading, 11. Mr. Hall's account of

the Rev. Thomas Toller, late of Kettering, 16. His expositions

at Cambridge, 17. A specimen of his choice of subjects in

1796, ib. ;—and in 1800, 19. His Thursday evening lectures, 20.

Unpopularity of the Dissenters at Cambridge, 21. Spirit of the

Tories, 22. Mr. Hall's preaching attended by the gownsmen, 24.

Ungenerous attack on the Dissenters by the Author of the Velvet

Cushion, 25. Offers of preferment in the Church, 27. Com-

plimented by Dr. Parr, 29. His opinion of Sir James Mack-

intosh, ib. Dispute with Benjamin Flower, 30. Opinion of

Dr. Rippon's Hymns, ib. Anecdote relating to two men who

were executed, 31. Plan of an Exposition of the 14th chapter

of John, from 15th verse, 32. Adaptation of his discourses at the

close of the year, 34. Anecdote of his insight into character, 35.

Circumstances preceding and connected with his mental malady,

37. Belief in apparitions, 39. His close study, 41. Opinion of

Foster's Essays, 43. Melancholy abberration, 44. Sent to Lei-

cester, 45. Annuity raised for him at Cambridge, ib. The

author's visits to him at Wigstone, after his confinement at

Leicester, 46. Mr. Hall's own account of his treatment, ib.

He recommends kindness and private confinement in such

cases, 47. His injunctions to the author in case of a relapse, ib.

Reluctance to return to Cambridge, 48; returns in April with

Mr. Toller, 49. An account of his feelings and extraordinary

state of mind, given to the author, ib. Letter from Sir James

Mackintosh to Mr. Hall, 50. His second attack manifested in

the Cambridge pulpit, with the subsequent circumstances, 54.

Difficulties the author had to encounter in fulfilling the instruc-

tions Mr. Hall gave him, 57. Mr. Hall's only brother visits

him and the author, 58. Mr. Hall is sent to Dr. Cox's, at the

the Fish Ponds, Bristol, ib. Superior treatment in that in-

stitution, 59. Mr. Hall's Letter of resignation of the pastoral

office to the Church at Cambridge, ib. Mr. Hollick's Reply, 61.

PART II.

FROM THE PERIOD of Mr. HALL'S RESIGNATION OF THE PASTO-

RAL OFFICE AT CAMBRIDGE, TO HIS REMOVAL FROM LEICESTER

TO BRISTOL.

The

Mr. Hall's marriage, and settlement at Leicester, 63.

author visits Mr. Hall at Dunstable, ib. Travels with him to

Arnsby, 64. His opinion of his Cambridge friends, ib. Con-

versation and anecdotes on the road, 65. Singular interview

with an old gentleman, 66. Opinion of Dr. Owen, 67. Inter-

view with the Rev. Andrew Fuller at Arnsby, 72. An account

of Mr. Hall's sermon there, 73. The author's first visit to him

at Leicester, 75. Mr. Hall preaches two sermons at Sutton in

the Elms, ib. Mr. Hall's retiring into the garden to pray, 76.

Mr. Hall's Letter to the author, 77. Journey to Leicester, 78.

State of the church at Leicester, ib. Rapid progress of Mr.

Hall's liberal views among the Baptists, 79. An account of the

manner of Mr. Hall's administering the Lord's Supper, 80.

His opinion with regard to spectators at the ordinance, 82.

Mr. Hall's first visit to Cambridge after his resignation, 83.

Agreeable surprise to his friends, 84. Singular identity of the

Cambridge congregation for a number of years, 86. Mr. Hall's

Letter to the author, 87. Another Letter to ditto, 89. The

author's visit to Mr. Hall at Leicester, ib. His use of lauda-

num, 90. His own opinion of the pain in his back, 90. Mr.

Chandler's account from the post-mortem examination of the

body, ib. Conversations, 91. Mr. Hall's opinion of the cele-

brated Machiavel, 92. Conversation on the American war and

General Washington, between Mr. Ryland, of Northampton, and

Mr. Hall's father, 93. An account of one of his father's ser-

mons, 95. Mr. Hall's loss by his London bookseller, 96. The

author requests him to write a volume of sermons to repair his

loss, ib. His objections to this, 97. His opinion of the East

India question, and Mill's History of India, 98. An account of

a sermon, ib. Anecdote on parting with Mr. Hall, 100. Letter

to the author, ib. Journey with Mr. Hall, 101. A sermon,

from "Man dieth and wasteth away," 105. Return with him

principle of the

to Leicester, 107. Mr. Hall condemns the

Sinking Fund, 108. Eulogizes Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations,

and Principles of Free-Trade, ib. Mr. Hall's extensive know-

ledge, 109. Account of a sermon at Leicester-"The truth as

it is in Jesus”—many barristers present, 110. Conversation,

112. On the duty of making an apology, &c., 113. Forgiveness

of injuries, 115. His opinion of the 84th Psalm-the original

text with translations in a Polyglot form, 116. Naaman the

Assyrian, opinion of, 119. Poole's Synopsis, 120. Letter

to Mrs. Greene, 121. Letter to the author, 122. Visit

to him at Leicester, 124. Laments that expounding the

Scriptures is not so much approved as sermons, 124. Com-

mences an exposition of the Acts of the Apostles, 126. His

interesting description of our Lord's Ascension, 127. His opi-

nion of Mr. Irving's Orations, 130. Mysterious loss of his

sermon on the Existence and Agency of the Devil, 131.

Letter to the author, 132. Ditto, 133. Mr. Hall's opinion

of the spiritual condition and prospects of the Jews, 135.

His Leicester friends do not approve his expositions, 137. His

own opinion of his sermon on the Death of the Princess Char-

lotte, ib. His encomium on Mr., now Lord, Brougham's

Inaugural Address to the University of Glasgow, 138. Author's

opinion of the reason of his aversion to publish more, 139.

Reasons assigned for so few ministers rising above mediocrity,

ib. Opinion of Philip Henry, and Matthew, his son, the

Expositor, 140. Opinion of Barrow and Blair's Sermons,

141. His reasons for and against leaving Leicester-Rev.

Isaiah Birt's opinion, 143. Visited at unseasonable hours, 145.

b

Visiting the widow and the fatherless, 146. The author
accompanies him to Charley Forest, and the seat of Lady Jane
Grey, 147. His preference for Baxter's Theological senti-
ments, 153. A melancholy scene, 154. A Letter of Condolence
to the author, ib.

PART III.

MR. HALL'S REMOVAL TO BRISTOL, 1826.

Removal to Bristol-Letter to the author, 157. Visits at Bristol,

159. Striking alteration in Mr. Hall's health, from anxiety, 160.

Letter of resignation to the Baptist Church at Leicester, 161;

-to the Open Communion Church, 163. The author assists in

arranging Mr. Hall's books, 164. Mr. Hall's opinion of the

architecture of Bristol Academy, ib. Compliments the Students

and Rev. Mr. Crisp - Recommends more time for general

literature, 165. Poetical allusion, 166. Visit with him to

Lord Clifford's park and Pen-pole Point, ib. Remark on the

sun setting in the Severn, ib. Objection of the Baptists at

Broadmead to Mixed Communion, ib. Felicitates the Rev.

Mr. Mursell on his success in uniting the Leicester Church in

the practice of Open Communion, 167. Plan of the Conference

Meetings at Bristol-Singular text discussed, ib. Opinion of

Dr. Young's Night Thoughts, 171. Opinion of Pollok's

Course of Time, 172. His health seriously affected, ib. Objec-

tion to the use of the term Chapel by Dissenters, 173. Objection

to the gown and cassock, ib. Respectful delicacy to Dr. Car-

penter, 174. Declines reprinting his Letter to Mr. Clayton, ib.

Present mode of preaching too methodical, 175. His manner of

visiting his friends at Bristol, 176. Shews the author the Fish

Ponds-Commends the institution, ib. After a stay at Bristol,

for about five months, the author is invited to visit Mr. Hall at

Cambridge, in September, 1826, 177. Account of his visit to

his old friends — Anxiety to please — Their great liberality

and attachment, 178-180. Anecdote relative to the choice

of a successor to Mr. Fuller, at Northampton, some years

before this period, 182. Returns to Bristol by London, 183.

A Letter from Sir Thomas Denman to the Author, with his and

Lord Brougham's opinions of Mr. Hall, 184. Letter from Mr.

Hall to the Author, 185. Visit to him at Bristol, 186. Mr.

Hall not deficient in judgment, ib. His opinion of West India