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ay at Higham, 1648. The Mourner in Sion. A Sermon, preached at Higham, printed 1655. The Women's Veil, or a Discourse concerning the Necessity or Expedience of the close Covering the Heads of Women. Holy Decency in the Worship of God. Good Security, a Discourse of the Christian's Assurance. A Plain and Familiar Explication of Christ's Presence, in the Sacrament of his Body and Blood. A Letter for the Observation of the Feast of Christ's Nativity. A Letter to Mr. William Struthers, one of the Preachers at Edinburgh. Epistola D. Baltasari Willio. S.T.D. Epistola D. Lud. Crocio. S.T.D. Reverendissimo Marco Antonio de L'om. Archiep. Spalatensi. Epistola decessus sui ad Romam dissuasiva. A Modest Offer. Certain Irrefragable Propositions, worthy of serious Consideration. The Way of Peace in the Five Busy Articles, commonly known by the name of Arminius. A Letter concerning the Fall Away from Grace. A Letter concerning Religion. A Letter concerning the frequent Injection of Temptations. A Consolatory Letter to one under Censure. A Short Answer to the Nine Arguments which are brought against the Bishops sitting in Parliament. For Episcopacy and Liturgy. A Speech in Parliament. A Speech in Parliament, in Defence of the Canons made in Convocation. A Speech in Parliament, concerning the Power of Bishops in secular things. The Anthems for the Cathedral of Exeter. All these are printed in 4to, and were published 1660. There are also other Works of this author. An Edition of the whole has been printed in three Vols. folio. Besides these works, Bishop Hall is author of Satires in Six Books, lately reprinted under the title of Virgidemiarum, of which we cannot give a better account than in the words of the ingenious authors of the Monthly Review, by which Bishop Hall's genius for that kind of poetical writing will fully appear. He published these Satires in the twenty third year of his age, and was, as he himself asserts in the Prologue, the first satirist in the English language. I first adventure, follow me who list, And be the second English satyrist. And, if we consider the difficulty of introducing so nice a poem as satire into a nation, we must allow it required the assistance of no common and ordinary genius. The Italians had their Ariosto, and the French their Regnier, who might have served him as models for imitation; but he copies after the ancients, a
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