WORKS,

Moral and Religious,

OF

Sir MATTHEW HALE, Knt.

LORD CHIEF JUSTICE OF THE COURT OF KING'S BENCH:

THE WHOLE NOW FIRST COLLECTED AND REVISED

TO WHICH ARE PREFIXED

HIS LIFE AND DEATH,

BY BISHOP BURNET, D. D.

AND

AN APPENDIX TO THE LIFE,

Including the ADDITIONAL NOTES of RICHARD BAXTER,

BY THE REV. T. THIRLWALL, M. A.

EDITOR OF THE LATIN AND ENGLISH DIATESSARONS.

IN TWO VOLUMES.

VOL. II.

LONDON:

PRINTED FOR H. D. SYMONDS, PATERNOSTER-ROW;

YARD

J. WHITE, FLEET-STREET; RIVINGTONS, ST. PAUL'S CHURCH-
RICHARDSONS, ROYAL-EXCHANGE; FAULDER,
BOND-STREET; HATCHARD, PICCADILLY; AND
NUNN, GREAT QUEEN-STREET.

1805.

R. WILKS, PRINTER, CHANCERY-LANE.

LIBRARY

UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA

VOL. II.

CONTEMPLATIONS, MORAL AND DIVINE,

Viz.

Page

Of the Consideration of our latter End, and

the Benefits of it

Of Wisdom and the Fear of God, that that is

true Wisdom

1

13

Of the Knowledge of Christ crucified

37

The Victory of Faith over the World

Of Humility: Its opposite Vices, Benefits,

and Means to acquire it

Jacob's Vow: or the Modesty and Reasonable-

ness of Jacob's Desire

97

126

169

Of Contentation, and the Motives to it, both

moral and divine

180

Of Afflictions; the best Preparation for them,

and Improvement of them, and of our De-

livery out of them

A good Method to entertain unstable and trou-

blesome Times

200

231

Of the chief End of Many what it is, and

the Means to attain it

Page

310

On Remembering our Creator in the Days of

our Youth

325

Of the Uncleanness of the Heart, and how it

is cleansed

333

Of the Moderation of the Affections

368

Of the Vanity and Vexation that ariseth from

Worldly Hope and Expectation

373

Of the Instability and Vicissitude of our present

Condition

379

Of Contentedness and Patience

386

Of Moderation and Anger

389

A Preparative against Afflictions; with Di-

rections for our Deportment under them,

and upon our Delivery out of them

Of Submission, Prayer and Thanksgiving

Meditations upon the Lord's Prayer

The Lord's Prayer paraphrased

Poems upon Christmas Day.

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581

CON