Hall, Joseph, 1574-1656
Enlarge text Shrink text- Hall, J. A modest offer of some meet considerations tendered to the learned prolocvtor, 1644:t.p. (a true lover of truth and peace)
- His A letter concerning separation, 1681:t.p. (a reverend author)
- BM cat.(Hall, Joseph, successively Bishop of Exeter and Norwich; also entry under I., E. [i.e., Joseph Hall, Bishop of Norwich])
- His Contemplations vpon the historie of the Nevv Testament, 1628:t.p. (By Ios. Hall, D. of Diuinitie, and Deane of VVorcester)
- His The remedy of prophanesse, 1638:t.p.(By Ios. Exon)
- Haydn, J. Book of dignities, 1970:p. 487 (Bishops of Exeter. 1627. Jos. Hall ... tr. to Norwich 1641)
- Joseph Hall (bishop); Joseph Hall (1 July 1574--8 September 1656) was an English bishop, satirist and moralist; born 1 July 1574, Prestop Park, Ashby-de-la-Zouch, Leicestershire, Leicestershire; died 8 September 1656, Heigham, Norfolk); Diocese of Norwich: 1641-1656; previous post: Bishop of Exeter: 1627-1641; Alma mater: Emmanuel College, Cambridge; He contributed to several distinct literary areas: satirical verse as a young man; polemical writing, particularly in defending episcopacy; and devotional writings, including contemplations carrying a political slant ( (Wikipedia, viewed May 12, 2015) )
- The discovery of a new world, or, A description of the South Indies hetherto vnknowne, 1935signed at end (The Cambridge pilgrime)
Joseph Hall (1 July 1574 – 8 September 1656) was an English bishop, satirist and moralist. His contemporaries knew him as a devotional writer, and a high-profile controversialist of the early 1640s. In church politics, he tended in fact to a middle way. Thomas Fuller wrote: He was commonly called our English Seneca, for the purenesse, plainnesse, and fulnesse of his style. Not unhappy at Controversies, more happy at Comments, very good in his Characters, better in his Sermons, best of all in his Meditations. Hall's relationship to the stoicism of the classical age, exemplified by Seneca the Younger, is still debated, with the importance of neo-stoicism and the influence of the Flemish philosopher Justus Lipsius to his work being contested, in contrast to Christian morality.
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