"Need I commend Bishop Hall's Contemplations to your affectionate attention? What wit! What sound sense! What concealed learning! His style is as pithy and witty as that of Thomas Fuller, and it has a sacred unction about it to which Fuller has no pretension." - C. H. Spurgeon

Author

Joseph Hall (1574-1656), one of the most venerable of the Puritans was educated at Emmanuel College, Cambridge. In 1618 he was delegated to the Synod of Dort.

Endorsements

"Though weak, I often spent two hours in my evening retirements and prayed over my Greek Testament and Bishop Hall's most excellent Contemplations." - George Whitefield