THE

WORKS,

aporal 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 BAKTER.

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

EDITOR OF THE LATIN AND ENGLISH DIATESSARONS,

IN TWO VOLUMES.

VOL. II.

LONDON:

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AND SOLD BY J. WHITE, FLEET-STREET;

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CONTENTS.

VOL. II.

CONTEMPLATIONS, MORAL AND DIVINE,

Viz.

Of the Consideration of our latter End, and

the Benefits of it

Of Wisdom and the Fear of God, that that is

true Wisdom

Of the Knowledge of Christ crucified

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

Of Contentation, and the Motives to it, both

moral and divine

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

Changes and Troubles, a Poem

The Redemption of Time : How and why

it is to be redeemed

The
great Audit;

Audit; with the Account of the

good Steward

An Enquiry touching Happiness