P. 56. Churches without preaching judged

forsaken of God.

"The

This alludes to the condition of things in the English Church just after the Reformation, when there being comparatively but few ministers capable of preaching, many churches were committed to those who were not licensed to preach, and for their use the books of homilies were provided. This the Puritans complained of in such terms as these; "Prayers and Sacraments, forasmuch as they take effect by the preaching of the Word,-where that is not, these do not only not feed, but are ordinarily to further condemnation." holy Sacraments are not effectual to salvation, without men be instructed by preaching before they be partakers of them." "I do not say but the Lord may if He will save those, who never heard nor shall hear a sermon in all their lives. But, wretches as we are, what is that to us? We have no warrant to hope for any such salvation." "The people living under our readers, though they faithfully execute their ministry, cannot hope for eternal life."

P. 74. "The Wise Man."

See Ecclesiasticus xlv. 7.

P. 200. They which deny the necessity
of Baptism.

That is, the Puritans, who said that "private Baptism first arose upon a false interpretation of the place

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of St. John, iii. 5: where certain do interpret the word water, of material and elemental water."

P. 207. Valentinian heretics.

St. Irenæus says of some of them, "They affirm that the mystery of the ineffable and invisible Power ought not to be solemnized by means of visible and corruptible creatures; but that perfect redemption is the simple knowledge of the ineffable greatness. For ignorance having been the cause of defect and suffering, it must be the work of knowledge to undo the whole system which ignorance has put together." Against Heresy, I. 18. Valentine was an Egytian, whose sect arose at Rome in the second century. It was one of the most flourishing branches of Gnosticism. See Mosheim, E. H. part ii. c. v. §. 15, &c.

P. 216. Miscreants (i. e. unbelievers) in scorn have upbraided us.

St. Gregory Nazianzen, in his first oration against the emperor Julian, quotes him for this sentiment; "Nothing beyond the one word believe is the reach of your party's wisdom.”

P. 231. Men of so good experience.

Because the passage above, recommending us to exercise ourselves in imagining the presence of some wise or good person, was taken from Seneca's Epistles, lib. i. ep. II.

P. 306. Avoid fasting on the Jews' sabbath.

Because the Gnostics and other heretics who ascribed the world to an evil being, kept the day of the creation of the world as a fast, betokening their rejection of His authority, and of the Old Testament.

P. 313. Victor's extremity.

See Euseb. E. H. v. 23. Victor, bishop of Rome, wishing to bring the East and West to an agreement in the manner of keeping Easter, and finding that the bishops of Asia would not submit to his decree, excommunicated them and their churches. The dissension was stopped by the remonstances of St. Irenæus.

P. 371. Laws Imperial.

That is, the laws of the Roman empire, as collected and methodized by Justinian, from whose Institutes this division is taken.

P. 372. An Archdeacon.

This martyr was St. Lawrence; the time, that of Dioclesian, about A. D. 300. The history is preserved by Prudentius, who was a contemporary. It may be seen recorded in stained glass in the east window of the church of Ludlow, Shropshire.

P. 375. Dionysius's navigation.

"Dionysius of Syracuse, having robbed the temple of Proserpine at Locri, finding the wind favourable for his voyage afterwards, said with a smile to his friends, "See you not what a good voyage we sacrilegious wretches are favoured with from the immortal Gods themselves." Valer. Maximus, i. 2.

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for commerce between read commerce to he had between 39. 15. dele of

15. for one, read one

162. 23. for given. read given:

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6. for receive at the least read receive, at the least
5. for are read were

7. for deriveth read derived

185. 6. for lives read life

207. note. for 3 read 30

210. 23. for faith by devout read faith, devout

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for maketh read nameth

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for complements read compliments

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for brought read wrought

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for dishonoured read honoured

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for had read hath

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for offices read rooms

for enemies' read enemy's for principles read principals for sometimes read sometime 9. dele as

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for inasmuch read insomuch
for where in read wherein

310. 14. dele inverted commas.

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for church, discipline read church discipline
for as joy read as oft as joy

315. 18. for joy read joy,

338. 13. after Holy Ghost add, St. John addeth that He also invested them even then with the power of the Holy Ghost.

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