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Guldenes Schatzkastlein der Kinder Gottes of Karl Heinrich von Bogatzky (q.v.), with a short introduction by Hall; but in subsequent editions Hall gradually substituted passages from his own pen, until in the end, with the exception of a single extract, the work was entirely his own. Christopher Newman Hall (q.v.) was his son.
Bibliography: Conflict and Victory; the Autobiography of the Author of the Sinner's Friend, ed. Newman Hall, London, 1S74.
HALL, JOSEPH: Bishop of Norwich; b. at Ashby-de-la-Zouch (16 m. n.w. of Leicester), Leicestershire, July 1, 1574; d. at Higham, near Norwich, Sept. S, 1656. He studied at Emmanuel College, Cambridge (B.A., 1592; M.A., 1596; B.D., 1603; D.D., 1612), and began his career as a poet and satirist, but later took orders and in 1601 accepted the living of Halsted in Suffolk. In 1608 he became chaplain to Henry, prince of Wales, and shortly afterward he received from the earl of Norwich the donative of Waltham. In 1616 he was sent to France as chaplain to the English ambassador, and the following year he was summoned to attend James I. to Scotland to aid the king in his attempt to introduce there the ceremonial and liturgy of the Episcopal Church. He was made dean of Worcester in 1617 and was sent by James as one of his commissioners to the Synod of Dort in 1618. A Latin sermon preached by Hall before that assembly has been preserved. The see of Gloucester having been declined by him in 1624 he was elevated to that of Exeter in 1627, and translated to Norwich in 1641. With eleven other bishops he was accused of high treason and imprisoned in the Tower in Dec, 1641, but was released in June, 1642. The following year the revenues of his see were sequestered, though an allowance of £400 a year was granted him by parliament. Early in 1647 he was ejected from his palace, and his cathedral was dismantled. He then retired to a small estate at Higham.
Hall was a man of broad and tolerant sympathies, a moderate Calvinist, and sought for a mean between Calvinism and Arminianism. His Puritanical leanings offended Laud, but, like many other Puritans, he was strongly attached to the Church of England. As a pulpit orator he has had few equals among English preachers of the Established Church. He was a prolific author, but many of his works were purely controversial and only of ephemeral interest. To be mentioned particularly are : his satires, published under the title, Virgidemiarum, Six Books (2 vols., London, 1597-98; ed. A. B. Grosart, in The Complete Poems of Joseph Hall, Manchester, 1879), which are among the best in the language; Meditations and Vows, Divine and Moral (London, 1606; enlarged ed., 1621; ed. Charles Sayle, 1902), his most popular work; Epistles (3 vols., 1608-11; ed. W. H. Hale, 1840); Contemplations upon the Principal Passages of the Holy Story (8 vols., 1612-26; ed., with a Memoir, by C.Wordsworth, 1871), a valuable devotional work; The Old Religion (1628; ed. J. Brogden, in Catholic Safeguards, vol. ii., 1846), an exposition of the corruption in the Roman Catholic Church; Explication of All the Hard Texts of Scripture (Exeter, 1633; new ed., 2 vols., London,
1837); Episcopacy by Divine Right Asserted (1640new ed., 1838), written at the suggestion of Laud- An Humble Remonstrance to the High Court of Parliament (1640), a skilful vindication of liturgies and episcopacy which called forth the reply from the Puritans " written by Smectymnuus " and led to a famous controversy (see Smectymnuus); and the posthumous Contemplations on the New Testament (1662). There are a number of collected editions of his works, the best being those of P. Hall (12 vols Oxford, 1837-39) and P. Wynter (10 vols., Oxford' 1863).
Bibliography: Besides the biographical material already mentioned, consult: G. Lewis, Life of Joseph Hall, London, 1886; John Jones, Memoirs of Bishop Hall, ib. 18264 T. Fuller, Hist, of the Worthies of England, ii. 230-231 ed' P. A. Nuttall, ib. 1840; J. H. Overton, The Church in England, ii. 31, 73 et passim, ib. 1897; W. H. Hutton, Tht English Church 1626-1714, pp. 79 et passim, ib 1903- DNB, xxiv. 75-80.
HALL, RANDALL COOK: Protestant Episcopalian; b. at Wallingford, Conn., Dec. 18, 1842. He was educated at Columbia College (A.B., 1863) and the General Theological Seminary (1866), and was ordained priest in 1870. He was instructor in Hebrew in the General Theological Seminary from 1869 to 1871, and from 1871 until his retirement as professor emeritus in 1899 was professor of Hebrew and Greek in the same institution. Since 1904 he has been chaplain of the House of the Holy Comforter, New York City. He has written Some Elements of Hebrew Grammar (New York, 1895).
HALL, ROBERT: Baptist; b. at Arnesby (7 m. s.s.e. of Leicester), Leicestershire, May 2, 1764; d. at Bristol Feb. 21, 1831. His father was Robert Hall (d. 1791), a Particular Baptist minister of some eminence, who joined Andrew Fuller and John Ryland (qq.v.) in opposing hyper-Calvinistic antinomianism in his denomination. The son was the youngest of a family of fourteen and as an infant was so frail that his life was despaired of. At the age of nine, however, he delighted to read the works of Jonathan Edwards. After a year and a half of classical study under Ryland and a period of theological study under his father, he entered Bristol College in 1778, and accomplished the course required in three years. He then entered Aberdeen University (M.A., 1784). In 1785 he returned to Bristol to assist Dr. Caleb Evans in the work of instruction in the college. His ministry in the Broadmead Church attracted great audiences; but the liberal tone of his teachings alarmed Dr. Evans and other conservative brethren, and Hall's consciousness of the possession of superior gifts and attainments, not being coupled with due humility of spirit, brought about such strained relations between him and the aged principal as to necessitate his withdrawal (1790). He had greatly offended his conservative brethren by expressing the conviction that God would not damn Joseph Priestley, the Unitarian, and was strongly suspected of Unitarian leanings. The death about this time of Robert Robinson (q.v.) of Cambridge, who from being a Calvinist had become Arminian and then Socinian, left vacant a church that was glad to secure the services of the brilliant young preacher. His fifteen years' pastorate in Cambridge was by