Participants in the Synod of Dort - Lancelot Andrewes, William Ames, Joseph Hall, John Hales, Daniel Heinsius, Joannes de Laet, Samuel Ward (Paperback)

Chapters: Lancelot Andrewes, William Ames, Joseph Hall, John Hales, Daniel Heinsius, Joannes de Laet, Samuel Ward, Thomas Goad, Rudolph Goclenius, Franciscus Gomarus, Simon Episcopius, George Carleton, John Brinsley the Younger, Jacobus Trigland, Abraham Scultetus, John Davenant, Gisbertus Voetius, Giovanni Diodati, Jacob de Witt, Walter Balcanquhall, Johann Heinrich Alting, Johann Bogerman. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 97. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Joseph Hall (1 July 1574 8 September 1656) was an English bishop, satirist and moralist. His contemporaries knew him as a devotional writer, and a high-profile controversialist of the early 1640s. In church politics, he tended in fact to a middle way. Thomas Fuller wrote: "He was commonly called our English Seneca, for the purenesse, plainnesse, and fulnesse of his style. Not unhappy at Controversies, more happy at Comments, very good in his Characters, better in his Sermons, best of all in his Meditations."His relationship to the stoicism of the classical age, exemplified by Seneca the Younger, is still debated, with the importance of neo-stoicism and the influence of Justus Lipsius to his work being contested, in contrast to Christian morality. He was born at Bristow Park, near Ashby-de-la-Zouch, Leicestershire. Joseph Hall came of a large family, being one of twelve children born to John Hall, agent in Ashby-de-la-Zouch for Henry Hastings, 3rd Earl of Huntingdon. Hall's mother, Winifred Bambridge, was a Calvinist close to Anthony Gilby. Her son later compared her to St Monica: "What day did she pass without a large task of private devotion? whence she would still come forth, with a countenance of undissembled mortification. Never any lips have read to me such feeling lectures of piety; neither have I known any soul that mo...More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=16492