WORKS OP 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, ST. LAWRENCE JEWRY, LONDON. IN TEN VOLUMES. VOL. II.-CONTEMPLATIONS. LONDON: PRINTED BY C WHITTINGHAM, Dean Strect : HOOD, AND SHARPE; J. WALKER; AND J. WHITE, CONTENTS OF VOL. II. I. CONTEMPLATIONS ON THE OLD TESTAMENT. 32 BOOKS XIX, XX, XXI. Ahab and Micaiah, or the Death Elisha with the Shunamite....... 39 Abaziah Sick, and Elijah Re- Elisha Raising the Iron, Blinding The Rapture of Elijah............25 The Famine of Samaria Relieved. 61 Elisha Healing the Waters, Curs. 67 The Shunamite suing to Jeho. The Utter Destruction of the ram, Elisha Conferring with Kingdom of Israel............... 104 68 Hezekiah and Sennacherib........ 107 Jehu with Jehoram and Jezebel.. 74 Hezekiah Sick, Recovered, Vi- Jehu Killing the Sons of Ahab, sited..... ..... 114 and the Priests of Baal........... 80 Manasseh....... ..... 121 Athaliah and Joash........ 87 Josiah's Reformation.......... 127 Joash with Elisha Dying..... 93 Josiah's Death ; with the Deso- 98 lation of the Temple and Je- Ahaz with his New Altar........... 102 rusalem....... ..... 133 BOOK XXI. Zerubbabel and Ezra...... 139 Haman Disrespected by Mor- Nehemiah Building the Walls decai; Mordecai's Message to of Jerusalem.... 148 Esther ...... .... 166 Nehemiah Redressing the Extor- Esther Suing to Ahasuerus..... 176 tion of the Jews........ 154 Mordecai Honoured by Haman. 178 Ahasuerus Feasting; Vashti cast Haman Hanged; Mordecai Ad- Off; Esther Chosen..... 160 vanced... ............. 183 ...... II. CONTEMPLATIONS ON THE New TESTAMENT. Dedication to KING CHARLES. 192 BOOK I. Dedicated to Sir Henry YELVERTON. The Angel and Zachary........... 194 The Sages and the Star.......... 208 The Annunciation of Christ...... 200 The Purification.......... 213 The Birth of Christ................ 204 Herod and the Infants.......... 217 BOOK II. Dedicated to SIR EDWARD Cecil, Knt. .... 243 Christ's Baptism...... 229 The Marriage in Canaan........... 246 Christ Tempted.... 231 The Good Centurion................ 251 |
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