BISHOP HALL'S WORKS.

VOL. VI.

PRACTICAL; PART I.

OF

JOSEPH HALL, D.D.

SUCCESSIVELY BISHOP OF EXETER AND NORWICH:

WITH SOME ACCOUNT OF HIS LIFE AND SUFFERINGS,
WRITTEN BY HIMSELF.

A NEW EDITION, REVISED AND CORRECTED:
WITH CONSIDERABLE ADDITIONS, A TRANSLATION OF ALL THE LATIN PIECES,
AND A GLOSSARY, INDICES, AND NOTES.

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

1. Censure of Philosophers.

2. What Tranquillity is, and wherein it consists

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

abridged. Rejected as insufficient.-Disposition of the work

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 .

5. The Remedy of an Unquiet Conscience

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

benefit of this receipt.-The vain shifts of the guilty

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

8. The second main enemy to Peace, Crosses

9. Of Crosses that arise from conceit

10. Of true and real Crosses .

11. The first remedy of Crosses, before they come

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

Author

13. The third antidote of Crosses : from their Effect

14. The fourth antidote of Crosses: from their Issue

15. Of the importunity and terror of Death

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16. The grounds of the fear of Death

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

Death

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

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

evil.

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

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

cises