A Whip for Webster, starts from a clear mistake of the identity of John Webster the physician, for the dead dramatist John Webster; Hall argues from an "unyielding Aristotelian" point of view, and for no change in the educational system. It was a companion to the Vindiciae literarum (1654), which Christopher Hill calls "hysterical". He was an opponent of astrology, associating it in Histrio-mastix with the 'Familistical-Levelling-Magical temper'. Family John Hall (1633–1710), Bishop of Bristol, was his nephew. Works Hall wrote: Wisdoms Conquest. &c. 1651, translation of the contest of Ajax and Ulysses, Ovid, Metamorphoses. xiii. The Pulpit Guarded with XVII. Arguments, &c., against unlicensed preachers; with appendix, also found separately, Six Arguments to prove our Ministers free from Antichristianisme, &c., 1651. The Font Guarded with XX. Arguments, &c., 1651 (i.e. 1652), against indiscriminate baptism; has appendix, The Collier and his Colours, &c., 1662, against Thomas Collier, a General Baptist preacher, of Unitarian views; and second appendix, Praeecursor Praecursoris: or a Word to Mr. Tombs, &c., 1652, against John Tombes (1603–1666), Baptist preacher. The Beauty of Holiness, 1653; Wood gives 1656; perhaps a second edition. Comarum Ἀκοσμία. The Loathsomnesse of Long Haire. ... Appendix ... against & Painting, &c.,1654. Centuria Sacra ... Rules for ... understanding of the Holy Scriptures, 1654, 8vo. Rhetorica Sacra ... Tropes and Figures contained in the Sacred Scriptures,' &c., 1654. Histrio-mastix. A Whip for Webster, &c., 1654, against an "examen of academies" appended to John Webster's Saint's Guide, 1654.Vindiciae Literarium; the Schools Guarded, &c., 1654 (i.e. 1655); makes all learning a handmaid to divinity. Phaetons Folly, &c., 1655, translations of Ovid, Metamorphoses ii. and Tristia eleg. i. A Scriptural Discourse of the Apostacy of Antichrist, &c., 1655. Chiliastomastix Redivivus, sive Homesus Enervatus. A Confutation of the Millenarian Opinion .., with a Word to our Fifth-monarchy Men, &c., 1657, (Wood); 1658, against The Resurrection Revealed, 1654, by Nathaniel Holmes, D.D.A Practical and Polemical Commentary, on 2 Tim. iii. iv., &c., 1658. Tὸ ὅλος τῆς γῆς: sive Apologia pro Ministerio Evangelico, &c., Frankfort, 1658; in English, Apology for the Ministry, &c., 1660, (Smith). Samaria's Downfall, &c., 1659, 4to; commentary on Hosea xiii. 12–16, supplementary to the Exposition of Jeremiah Burroughes; 1660; 1843; appended is an attack on Solomon Eccles, the Quaker. The Beauty of Magistracy, &c., 1660, written with George Swinnocke. Funebria Florae. The Downfall of May-games, &c., 1660; 1661, two editions. An Exposition'': [Amos, iv–ix.], &c.,