Male : Poet and Religious Writer. Married Elizabeth Winiffe in 1603. As a bishop he complained about such posts being excluded from Parliament, and for his pains he was imprisoned in the Tower of London and stripped of his bishopric when he was finally released in 1647

Nationality : English Place of Birth : Ashby-de-la-Zouch, Leicestershire

Date of Birth : 1574 Date of Death : 1656 Age : 82

Other Work : Chaplain to James I 1608. Bishop of Exeter 1627-41. Bishop of Norwich 1641

Education : Ashby GS & Emmanuel College, Cambridge

1597-1600
Virgidemiarum : First three Books of Toothless Satires (1597)
Three Last Books of Biting Satires (1598)

1601-1605
The King's Prophecy, or Weeping Joy (1603)
The Anatomy of Sin (1603)
Meditations and Vows Divine and Moral (1605)
Mundus Alter et Idem (c1605)

1606-1610
Heaven upon Earth (1606)
The Art of Divine Meditation (1606)
Holy Observations (1607)
Some Few of David's Psalms Metaphrased (1607)
Characters of Virtues and Vices (1608)
Epistles (1608-11) - 4 vols
Salomon's Divine Arts (1609)
The Peace of Rome (1609)
A Common Apology of the Church of England (1610)

1611-1620
Polemices Sacrae Par Prior : Roma Irreconciliabilis (1611)
Contemplations upon the Principal Passages of the Holy Story (1612-26) - 8 vols
A Recollection of Such treatises as have Been Heretofore Severally Published
and are Now Revised (1614)
Quo Vadis ? A Just censure of Travel as it is Commonly Undertaken by the gentlemen
of Our Nation (1617)
The Honour of the Married Clergy Maintained (1620)

1621-1635
Works (1625)
The Old Religion (1627)
An Answer to Pope Urban, His Inurbanity (1629)
The Reconciler (1629)
Occasional Meditations (1630)
A Plain and Familiar Explication of the Old and New Testament (1632)
An Explication by Way of Paraphrase of All the Hard texts in the Old & New Testament (1633)
Propositiones Catholicae (1633)
The residue of the Contemplation upon the New Testament, with Sermons (1634)
The Works with a Table now added to the same (1634 Haviland, London)
Antochediasmata : vel, Meditatiunculae Subitaneae (1635)

1636-1645
The Remedy for Prophaneness (1637)
Certain Irrefragable Propositions (1639)
An Humble Remonstrance to the High Court of Parliament (1640)
Christian Moderation (1640)
Episcopacie by Divine Right Asserted (1640 for Nathanel Butter, London)
A Defense of the Humble Remonstrance (1641)
Osculum Pacis (1641)
A Modest Confutation (1642)
A Modest Offer to Some Meet Considerations (1644)
The Devout Soul (1644)
The Peace-Maker (1645)
The Remedy of Discontentment (1645)
The Balm of Gilead (1645)

1646-1650
Three Tractates (1646)
Christ Mystical (1647)
Hard Measures (1647)
Satan's Fiery Darts Quenched, or Temptation Repelled (1647)
The Breathings of the Devout Soul (1648)
Pas Terris (1648)
Select Thoughts : One Century (1648)
Resolutions and Decisions of Diverse Practical Cases of Conscience (1649)
The Revelation Unrevealed (1650)

1651-1700
Susurrium cum Deo (1651)
Holy Raptures (1652)
The Great Mysterie of Godliness, Laid forth (1652 John Place, London)
(1847 Pickering)
The Holy Order (1654)
The Invisible World (1659)
The Apostolic Institution (1659)
The Shaking of the Olive Tree : Remaining Works (1659)
Diverse Treatises : Vol 3 (1662)
Psicttacorum Regis (1669)
Contemplations upon the Remarkable Passages in the Life of Holy Jesus (1679)
Episcopal Admonition (1681)

After 1701
The Works (1738 the proprietors, London)
Extracts from Various Devotional Writings of (1784 T Chapman, Birmingham)
Works (1863) - 20 vols. Edited by P Wynter
Devotions, Sacred Aphorisms and Religious Table-Talk (1867) - Edited by J W Morris
Collected Poems (1949) - Edited by A Davenport

READING
Tom F Kinloch : The Life and Works of Joseph Hall (1951)
Frank Livingstone Huntley : Joseph Hall - A Biographical and Critical Study (1978)