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Bishop Hall, His Life and Times; Or, Memoirs of Joseph Hall
Bishop Hall His Life and Times Or Memoirs of Joseph Hall Author:John Jones General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1826 Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million book... more »s for free. Excerpt: CHAPTER III. The Bishop continues his narrative: -- ' " Immediately before the publishing of this tractate (which did not a little aggravate the envy and suspicion,) I was by his Majesty raised to the bishoprick of Exeter; having formerly, with much humble deprecation, refused the see of Gloucester earnestly proffered unto me. How, beyond all expectation, it pleased' God to place me in that western charge; which, if the Duke of Buckingham's letters, he being then in France, had arrived but some hours sooner, I had been defeated of; and, by what strange means it pleased God to make up the competency of that provison, by the unthought-of addition of the rectory of St. Breok within that diocese: if I should fully relate the circumstances, would forcethe confession of an extraordinary hand of God n the disposing of those events. The living of St. Breok, in Cornwall, according to Dr. Walker, was then worth about £300. a year. Sufferings of the Clergy, part ii, p. 24. " I entered upon that place, not without much prejudice and suspicion on some hands: for some, that sat at the stern of the Church, had me in great jealousy for too much favor of Puritanism. I soon had intelligence who were set over me for espials. My ways were curiously observed and scanned. However, I took the resolution to follow those courses which might most conduce to the peace and happiness of my new and weighty charge. Finding, therefore, some factions spirits yery busy in that diocese, I used all fair and gentle means to win them to good order; and therein so happily prevailed, that, saving two of that numerous clergy who continuin...« less