Editing Robert Hall (minister) (section)

==Reputation==
Of Hall at King's College, Aberdeen in the 1780s, his friend James Mackintosh wrote that he

<blockquote>[...] then displayed the same acuteness and brilliancy; the same extraordinary vigour, both of understanding and imagination, which have since distinguished him, and which would have secured to him much more of the admiration of the learned and the elegant, if he had not consecrated his genius to the far nobler office of instructing and reforming the poor.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Mackintosh |first1=James |last2=Mackintosh |first2=Robert J. |title=Memoirs of the Life: In Two Volumes |date=1835 |publisher=Moxon |page=13|volume=I |url=https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=Rv45AAAAcAAJ&pg=PA13 |language=en}}</ref></blockquote>

[[Samuel Parr]] in his ''Spital Sermon'' (1800) wrote:

<blockquote>Having stated my wishes, that in a few, I mean a very few instances, Mr. Hall had been a little more wary in pushing his principles to consequences, which they may not quite warrant, I will give my general opinion of him in the words that were employed to describe a prelate, whose writings, I believe, are familiar to him, and whom he strongly resembles, not perhaps in variety of learning, but in fertility of imagination, in vigour of thinking, in rectitude of intention, and holiness of life. Yes, Mr. Hall, like [[Jeremy Taylor|Bishop Taylor]], has "the eloquence of an orator, the fancy of a poet, the acuteness of a schoolman, the profoundness of a philosopher, and the piety of a saint."<ref>{{cite book |last1=Parr |first1=Samuel |title=A Spital sermon, preached at Christ Church, upon Easter Tuesday, April 15, 1800, to which are added notes |date=1801 |publisher=Mawman |location=London |page=64 |url=https://archive.org/details/spitalsermonprea00parr/page/64/mode/1up}}</ref></blockquote>

[[Beilby Porteus]], [[Bishop of London]], arranged to meet Hall for dinner through [[John Owen (1766–1822)|John Owen]].<ref>{{cite book |last1=Hall |first1=Robert |title=The Works of the Rev. Robert Hall, A.M.: With a Memoir of His Life |date=1858 |publisher=Harper & brothers |page=15|volume=IV |url=https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=PYJKAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA15 |language=en}}</ref>