1446

TO

THE RIGHT HONOURABLE

JOHN, LORD ELTJON.

BARON ELDO,N,

OP ELDON, IN THB COUNTY PÅ LATING OP CHESTER,

Lord High Chancel.lor of Great-Britain,

: : 80.5&c.

The following Works are the production of a Man of whom the Learned Profession has reason to boast. His piety and virtue, his learning and labors, reflected a lustre on the exalted station he filled, and have stamped on his memory the veneration and esteem of impartial posterity. Your Lord

ship

a 2

si'uip will not be unwilling that Your Name shoi ild be inscribed on the same roll with that of Sir. Matthew Hale. Under a persuasion that he would, with reciprocal pleasure, ackne?wledge My Lord ELDON, these Works, with PERMISSION, are dedicated to your Lordship,

PAGE

vii

PREFACE

The Life and Death of Sir Matthew Hale, il

by Bishop Burnet ; . . . . . 1

A Catalogue of Sir Matthew Hale's Works - 76

An Appendix to the Life and Death of Sir

Matthew Hale, by the Editor . 85

Additional Notes on the Life and Death of Sir

Matthew Hale, Knt. written by Richard

Baxter, at the request of Edward Stephens,

Esq. Publisher of his Contemplations, and

his familiar Friend ... . . . 88

A Continuation of the Appendix, by the Editor 115

Pour Letters of Sir Matthew Hale to his Chil-

dren, viz.

Letter 1. Directions touching the Keeping

of the Lord's Day : ... - - - 194

Letter II. Directions touching Religion : 205

Letter III. Concerning their Speech - : 212

Letter IV. To one of his Sons after his Re!

covery from the Small-por - .. 223

A brief Abstract of the Christian Religion 247

Considerations seasonalle at all Times for

cleansing the Heart and Life . . 259

A Discourse of Religion, in Three Parts :

Part 1. The Ends and Uses of it, and the

Errors of Men touching it - - 288

a 3

Part

PAGB

Part Il. The Life of Religion, and Super.

additions to it .: . . . 308

Part III. The Superstructions upon Reli-

gion, and Animosities about them

318

A Discourse on Life and Immortality . 331

On the Day of Pentecost: - . .. 343

Concerning the Works of God . . 365

Of doing as we would be done unto - - 7 377

The Life and Death of Pomponius Atticus, 1 '

; written by his Contemporary and Acquainte !

ance, Cornelius Nepos; translated out of his

Fragments : together with Observations,
poļitical and moral, thereupon , -

A Discourse touching Provision for the Poor 515

ERRATA.
Vol. I. p. 71, read as a Note --- Even the party whom he decided against

were satisfied with the equity of his decision.
. p. 166, line 8, for do, read does.

- 0, for reader, read renders.
p. 167, -- 8, for intelligencer, read intelligence,

p. 304, -15, see note, vol. ii. p. 138.
Vol. II.- p.141, 6, after God, see note.

PRE